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Antifa members gather at a rally in Portland, Oregon, on Aug. 17, 2019.
Antifa members gather at a rally in Portland, Oregon, on Aug. 17, 2019.
Sponsored by The Free Speech Club, the event had been given the green light to take place on Jan. 29, but on Dec. 20 the university suddenly cancelled the talk citing safety and security concerns.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is calling on UBC to reinstate the event or face legal action, saying cancelling Ngo's talk goes against the university's principles regarding academic freedom and free speech.
Comment: The last thing one wants to do when dealing with a mob of vigilantes threatening to shut down your event is to give in to them. This simply emboldens them to do more and starts the momentum of giving in to threats. Unruly mobs of brainwashed kids should not be allowed to dictate the agenda of a University.
See also:
- Fights erupt as 1000+ antifa-like protesters swarm Ann Coulter event at UC Berkeley
- Police bust Antifa hideout in Athens' Economics and Business University
- Antifa thugs show up to Andy Ngo's house in Andy Ngo masks on Halloween
- Baton attack during June protests in downtown Portland lands Antifa activist in prison for nearly 6 years
- Notorious Portland antifa activist dies under mysterious circumstances
- Police protect Columbus statues from Antifa by taping job applications on them
- Masked Antifa mob blocks path, shouts at elderly couple outside Dave Rubin/Maxime Bernier event in Canada
- Sane Iowa community college announces 'decision to remove' Antifa prof amid backlash
Flames bear down on Harrington, some 335kms northeast of Sydney, 8 Nov 2019
Comment: See also:
- Climate change? Nearly 200 people arrested across Australia for deliberately starting bushfires
- Ice Age Farmer Report: AUSTRALIA: Burned on the altar of global warming
- Smoke and deception blanket Australia
- Crikey. Australian military preps for major evac operation from fire-ravaged Victoria
- Thousands trapped on Australian beach by massive wildfire, turning skies RED and raining embers
- 'Uncharted territory': Out-of-control bushfires rage across Australia's eastern regions
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Iran Red Crescent workers search through debris near the location a Ukraine International Airlines flight crashed in Tehran.
Iran Red Crescent workers search through debris near the location a Ukraine International Airlines flight crashed in Tehran.
Flight radar information showed Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 abruptly disappearing after takeoff from the Imam Khomeini airport after taking off just after 6 am local time.
There were reportedly 167 passengers on board, according to an airline representative reached by Sputnik.
Later in the day, Pir-Hossein Koulivand, the head of Iran's Emergency Medical Services (EMS), confirmed to Tasnim news agency that everyone on board had died.
Comment: Update from Reuters:
Iran will not give black box from crashed Ukrainian airliner to Boeing: Mehr
January 8, 2020 / 11:00 AM
Iran will not give the black box of the crashed Ukrainian airliner to planemaker Boeing, the head of Tehran's civil aviation organization was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Ali Abedzadeh also said it was not clear which country Iran would send the box to so that its data could be analyzed, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
A Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 crashed earlier on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard shortly after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport.
The jet's engine reportedly caught fire while the plan was airborne, causing the crash, according to a senior PR official at the airport. However, the pilot apparently didn't issue a distress call. The plane was reportedly in good shape, one of the airline's best, and had undergone maintenance just 2 days before the crash.
Among the dead: 147 Iranians (65 with dual citizenship) and 32 foreigners, including 11 Ukrainians, 63 Canadians, four Afghans, three Germans, three British nationals and 10 Swedes.
Ukraine's president, Zelensky, has called on the public to abstain from speculating on the cause of the crash. Naturally, people are speculating, many wondering if it was accidentally shot down by Iranian military:
It smells a lot like MH17, that's for sure.
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More than four out of every five Israelis consider their leaders to be corrupt, polling conducted by the Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research for the annual Israel Democracy Index report has found.
In polling, 58 percent of respondents said they believed Israeli leaders were 'corrupt' or 'very corrupt', with another 24 percent saying they were 'moderately corrupt'. 16 percent said they believed their leaders were 'not at all' corrupt, and 2 percent had no opinion.
The polling, conducted in May 2019, and asking a sample of 1,014 interviewees their views on a range of issues, also found that Israel's military was the country's 'most trusted' institution, with 90 percent of Israeli Jews and 41 percent of Israeli Arabs saying they 'trust' the Israel Defence Force. President Reuven Rivlin and the Supreme Court also showed high levels of trust (71 percent and 55 percent trust among Jewish respondents, 37 and 56 percent trust among Arabs, respectively). Institutions which Israelis do not trust include the police (44 and 38 percent trust among Jews and Arabs), the media (36 percent trust), the Knesset (30 and 24 percent), the government (30 and 28 percent) and political parties (14 and 20 percent).
Corruption perceptions have been growing steadily since Israel Democracy Index began measuring attitudes. In 2014, just 43 percent of Israelis believed their leaders were corrupt.
Comment: See also:
- Bid to keep Netanyahu out of PM's office after election because he's facing bribery charges shot down in court
- Israeli PM Netanyahu says he wants Parliamentary immunity from prosecution in multiple corruption cases
- Twitter-sphere battles rage over Netanyahu's decision to ask for immunity from indictments
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Ocasio-Cortez (AOC, for short) stepped a little too far outside the mainstream when she clicked 'like' on a tweet by journalist Rania Khalek about US fears of Iranian retaliation over the killing of General Qassem Soleimani. An army of blue-checks and their enforcers quickly encircled her to point out the error of her ways, gloating when she finally knuckled under and apologized.
Today, there are at least 4.5 million anchor babies in the U.S. under 18-years-old, exceeding the annual roughly four million American babies born every year and costing American taxpayers about $2.4 billion every year to subsidize hospital costs.
Analysis conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed in 2018 that about 300,000 U.S.-born children of illegal aliens are born every year. These children, often referred to as "anchor babies," immediately obtain American citizenship and anchor their illegal or foreign parents in the country.
In addition, about 72,000 anchor babies are born to foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and foreign students every year — all of whom obtain immediate American citizenship simply for being born within the parameters of the country.
Altogether, about 372,000 anchor babies are estimated to have been born last year despite a commitment by Trump to sign an executive order ending the nation's "anchor baby policy" that incentivizes pregnant migrant women to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in the hopes of securing American citizenship for their children.
Comment: Miami: A case study of birthright citizenship abuse
The Center for Immigration Studies and Pew Research have estimated that there were between 275,000-297,000 births to illegal immigrant parents in 2014. Additionally, there are approximately 36,000 "birth tourists" who come to the U.S. each year. These births cost upwards of $2.4 billion for U.S. taxpayers.
Taxpayers are often left to pay the financial burden for these births. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, births to illegal immigrants cost Florida taxpayers more than $116 million a year. Even birth tourists, who have the financial resources to obtain a visa and travel to the U.S. in the first place, often don't pay their hospital bills. [..]
In many cases, these children return home with their parents and spend their entire childhoods abroad only to return to the U.S. when it is most beneficial - to receive a college education. These students apply as American citizens and compete for enrollment in states where they have never paid taxes to fund education. They are eligible for in-state tuition and financial aid, just like every other American.
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Bushfire damage in Rainbow Flat, New South Wales, Australia.
Bushfire damage in Rainbow Flat, New South Wales, Australia.
Pack up your possessions and head for safety? Stay and help put the fires out?
Or head into the bush with a packet of matches and start another fire?
Amazingly, in the Australian bushfire season, some people do the latter. So the obvious question is - why?
How many fires are started deliberately?
Two of the most recent studies say there are between 52,000 and 54,000 bushfires in Australia every year.
Dr Paul Read, co-director of Australia's National Centre for Research in Bushfire and Arson, puts the figure higher, at "62,000 and increasing".
Of those, 13% are started deliberately, and 37% are suspicious. That means 31,000 Australian bushfires are either arson, or suspected arson, every year.
That figure does not include recklessness or accidents. So a bushfire caused by a barbecue, or a spark from a chainsaw, would be classed as "accidental".
In short, up to 85 bushfires begin every day because someone leaves their house and decides to start one.
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Gold bars, Mitubishi Materials Corporation, Tokyo
Gold bars, Mitubishi Materials Corporation, Tokyo
Spot gold <XAU=> was up 1.1% at $1,568.19 per ounce as of 1:42 p.m. EST (1842 GMT), after rising to $1,579.72 earlier in the session, its highest since April 2013.
U.S. gold futures <GCcv1> settled 1.2% higher at $1,568.80 per ounce.
"The markets are nervous about what comes next between the United States and Iran; there are political risks and there is safe haven buying in gold," said Bob Haberkorn, senior market strategist at RJO Futures.
"The equities are lower, and this is a perfect storm for higher gold between now and until we get some clarity on the situation."
Iraq's parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave while Iran lambasted U.S. President Donald Trump after he threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites, including targets important to Iranian culture, if Tehran were to retaliate.
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Wisconsin state capitol building in Madison, Wisc., Aug. 8, 2018.Wisconsin state capitol building in Madison, Wisc., Aug. 8, 2018.
Wisconsin state capitol building in Madison, Wisc., Aug. 8, 2018.Wisconsin state capitol building in Madison, Wisc., Aug. 8, 2018.
Sens. André Jacque, Steve Nass and Dave Craig, all of whom are Republicans, reintroduced the bill on Monday.
The legislation would additionally require all written statements by state and local government in Wisconsin to be in English unless otherwise specified by law, or if another language is appropriate to the circumstances of an individual case, according to a copy of the preliminary draft of the bill obtained by ABC News.
Such cases could include protecting the health and safety of a citizen, protecting the rights of a criminal defendant or crime victim, or promoting tourism, according to the draft.
Comment: Video footage from the aftermath. Sputnik reports "that three people with gunshot wounds have been sent to a hospital in serious condition."
Update: CTV News reporting one dead and three wounded. No suspect has been apprehended: