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Washington Post finally publishes editor's note on coverage of Covington controversy

Matt Richardson
Fox News
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 20:27 UTC
Nathan Phillips Covington Catholic
The Washington Post, recently hit with a $250 million lawsuit for its coverage of a Kentucky high school student's January confrontation with a veteran at the Lincoln Memorial, on Friday issued an editor's note admitting that subsequent information either contradicted or failed to confirm accounts relayed in its initial article.

"A Washington Post article first posted online on Jan. 19 reported on a Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial," the note began. "Subsequent reporting, a student's statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story - including that Native American activist Nathan Phillips was prevented by one student from moving on, that his group had been taunted by the students in the lead-up to the encounter, and that the students were trying to instigate a conflict.

"The high school student facing Phillips issued a statement contradicting his account; the bishop in Covington, Ky., apologized for the statement condemning the students; and an investigation conducted for the Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School found the students' accounts consistent with videos," the note went on to say.

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LA woman sentenced to 15 years for beating 92yo Mexican with brick


NBC News
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 19:35 UTC
Rodolfo Rodriguez
© AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File
In this July 11, 2018, file photo, Rodolfo Rodriguez, 92, thanks well-wishers for their help, as he talks to the media gathered outside his home in Los Angeles.
A Los Angeles woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the beating of a 92-year-old man that was captured on video and shared widely on social media.

Thirty-year-old Laquisha Jones was sentenced Thursday following her no contest plea to elder abuse in December.

Prosecutors say Jones severely beat Rodolfo Rodriguez in the face with a brick on July 4 as the man was taking a walk. They say Rodriguez did nothing to provoke the attack.

A witness recorded video of Rodriguez as he sat dazed, his face bloodied, after being beaten. The witness, Misbel Borjas, also took a photo of a woman with a brick in her hand.

Borjas says Jones yelled at Rodriguez: "Go back to your country."

The case wasn't prosecuted as a hate crime.

Comment: The last line was corrected as follows: "Prosecutors added hate crime allegations in an amended complaint, but they were not part of the plea agreement that ended the case."

From an article at the time of the assault, quoting the woman who took the video:
"When I tried to videotape her with my cell phone," Borjas said of the attacker, "she threw that same concrete block, tried to hit my car."


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DEA, New York law enforcement raid alleged NY drug mill, recover enough fentanyl to kill 2 nearly million people

Chris Francescani
ABC News
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:01 UTC
Drug bust
© WABC
Authorities said that they recovered 5 kilos of fentanyl and 6 kilos of heroin at a home in Ardsley, New York
Authorities raided a residential suburban home in leafy Westchester County, New York Friday morning and walked out with enough fentanyl to kill nearly 2 million people, an official with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said.

Five kilograms of the poisonously potent synthetic opioid were seized along with 6 kilograms of heroin, a more common street drug which, when spiked with fentanyl, has caused tens of thousands of fatal overdoses in America in recent years.

Officials said police arrested 31-year-old Braulio Mata, of Ardsley, 44-year-old Jose Garcia, of Ardsley, 47-year-old Ramon Aracena Alfe, of Mount Vernon, 32-year-old Dionell Duarte Hernandez, of New York, and 20-year-old Yarly Mendoza-Delorbe, of Ardsley.

"The fentanyl alone has the potency to kill nearly over two million people," said Ray Donovan, New York division DEA Special Agent in Charge. "I commend the men and women in the Task Force and Tactical Diversion Squad for their quick and efficient investigation into this organization and their diligence to the safety of the residents living nearby."

Comment: See also: Opioid makers are looking especially evil this week including members of the founding Sackler family

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Top 5 scandalous megaprojects funded by US taxpayers


RT
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 14:07 UTC
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© Getty Images
There seems to be a race between nations to develop the biggest and swankiest projects promising to make the lives of millions better.

The US is at the forefront of this "battle," with the government spending unheard of amounts to develop roads, tunnels, bridges, power plants, and weapons to make Americans feel both safe and comfortable.

RT has compiled a list of America's most expensive megaprojects that are making taxpayers wonder where their money is going.

California High-Speed Rail

The project, currently under construction in the state of California, is expected to connect cities from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The ambitious plan is set to provide Californian commuters with a comfortable one-seat ride lasting 2 hours and 40 minutes. The high-speed train is projected to reach speeds of more than 350 kilometers per hour. Future extensions are planned to connect San Diego County as well as Sacramento.

Comment: Major infrastructure projects can be expected to cost a lot of money and to take many years to complete, one can even forgive unexpected challenges, however the troubles these projects encountered reflect a country in the late stages of decay - and it's not just in the US. These projects just become yet another source for ponerized individuals, at all levels, to parasitize: Sadly for the West, it can be done, China and Russia are succeeding in implementing projects that could change the planet:

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No sign of slowing down: Yellow Vests march through Paris for 16th week in a row


RT
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:43 UTC
Yellow Vests 16 week
© Agence France-Presse/Eric Feferberg
Protesters take part in an anti-government demonstration called by the "Yellow Vest" movement, on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on March 2, 2019
Yellow Vest protesters have taken to the streets of Paris for the 16th consecutive week. While some enjoyed a friendly chat with police officers, others faced tear gas after trying to break off from a pre-approved marching route.

Unlike previous demonstrations, Paris officials authorized a designated route for Saturday's "Act 16" anti-government marchers - a span of road beginning at the Arc de Triomphe and ending at Place Denfert-Rochereau in the south of the city.
yellow vest Eric Drouet
© Agence France-Presse/Eric Feferberg
A protester uses his phone to take a selfie with Eric Drouet (L), one of the leading figures of the 'Yellow Vest' movement, on the sidelines of an anti-government demonstration held in Paris, on March 2, 2019.
In contrast to the chaotic clashes with police during previous protests, photographs and videos reveal a largely peaceful, orderly demonstration.

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'History repeats itself': Vandals target Jewish memorial stone for synagogue destroyed by Nazis


RT
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:20 UTC
Memorial stone
© AFP / Frederick Florin
The vandalized memorial stone on the spot of the Strasbourg's Old Synagogue.
A large marble slab commemorating the synagogue burnt to the ground by Nazis during WWII was knocked off its plinth in Strasbourg as France faces a rise of anti-Semitic attacks.

"A new incident of anti-Semitism in our town," Alain Fontanel, Strasbourg's deputy mayor, wrote on Twitter on Saturday morning posting a photo from the scene.

The official later told local media that the damage was caused intentionally since "you can't push a stele of this weight by chance especially since the message is clearly written on it."

The memorial stone marks the site of the Strasbourg's Kleber Wharf synagogue, which was looted and burned by the Nazis in 1940.
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Political correctness marches on: French 'language police' capitulate to femininizing job titles


RT
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 17:48 UTC
French academy language
© Reuters / Benoit Tessier / File
An annual public session at the Academie francaise (French Academy) in Paris
The French language is poised to undergo a feminine facelift after the austere council charged with safeguarding France's linguistic heritage abandoned its hard-nosed opposition to the feminization of job titles.

In a surprising departure from its centuries-old ban on feminine-fiddling with trade names, the Academie Francaise, or "French Academy," has declared in a new report that the 36-member body saw "no obstacle in principle" to feminine versions of French words for professional titles. Almost all of them have been masculine by default.

The uber-conservative council, often referred to as the "guardians" or "police" of the French language, said that they were open to "all developments in the language aimed at recognizing the place women have in society today."

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Border aid volunteers who left food and water for migrants sentenced to probation, fines

Rafael Carranza
USA Today
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:46 UTC
Migrants in AZ
© Nick Oza The Arizona Republic - USA TODAY NETWORK
June 23, 2017. Ajo, Arizona, USA; Humanitarian group, No More Deaths, volunteers search for the remains of migrants who died in remote rugged terrain after crossing the U.S. border illegally in triple-digit temperatures through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Ajo, Arizona.
A federal judge in Tucson on Friday sentenced four humanitarian-aid volunteers for dropping off water and food intended for migrants crossing through a deadly, protected wilderness desert area in southern Arizona.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernando Velasco sentenced Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick to 15 months of unsupervised probation. They will also have to pay fines totaling $250 each.

On Jan. 18, Velasco found the four women guilty on two charges for entering the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge without a proper permit and abandonment of property for dropping off 1-gallon jugs of water and cans of beans for migrants.

Both are Class "B" misdemeanors.

Hoffman also was convicted for operating a motor vehicle inside the refuge, located south of Ajo. The charges stemmed from an Aug. 13, 2017, encounter with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer as the four women volunteered with the humanitarian-aid group No More Deaths.
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Spanish conservative organization launches bus campaign against radical feminism


El País
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:08 UTC
Spanish Hazte Oír bus campaign feminism
© Europa Press
The bus calls for the repeal of gender violence laws.
Spanish ultraconservative Catholic organization Hazte Oír (Make Yourself Heard) has launched a bus campaign against "feminazis" and what it considers "radical feminism."

The campaign calls on Spain's conservative political leaders - Pablo Casado from the Popular Party (PP), Albert Rivera from Ciudadanos (Citizens) and Santiago Abascal from the far-right party Vox - to repeal the 2004 gender violence law and legal protections granted by Spanish regions to the LGBTQI community.

The bus will travel through several Spanish cities until International Women's Day on March 8, when a women's strike and demonstration have been planned.

"It's not gender violence, it's domestic violence" is the main message plastered on the bus. "Gender laws discriminate against men. Casado, Rivera, Abascal: Repeal the gender laws," is written below.
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Madness: Canadian court rules 14 y.o. girl can start testosterone injections without her parents' consent

Jeremiah Keenan
The Federalist
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:02 UTC
trans person
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ordered that a 14-year-old girl receive testosterone injections without parental consent. The court also declared that if either of her parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of family violence.

As previously reported, Maxine* was encouraged by her school counselor in BC's Delta School District to identify as a boy while in seventh grade. When Maxine was 13 years old, her doctor and his colleagues at BC Children's Hospital decided that Maxine should begin taking testosterone injections in order to develop a more masculine appearance.

Although Maxine's mother was ultimately willing to support hormone injections, her father Clark* was concerned about the permanent ramifications of cross-sex hormones. Suspecting that his daughter's mental health issues might be more the cause than the effect of her gender dysphoria, he ultimately decided that it would be better for her to wait until she was older before she embarked on any irreversible course of treatment.

Comment: How will the courts respond when society starts experiencing the fallout from their horrendous decisions that advocate abuse of children? Expect silence and denial.

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