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Some caravan migrants going back home: 'They tricked us - our dreams have gone to hell'


Mexico News Daily
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Migrants en route to Tijuana

Migrants en route to Tijuana from Mexicali yesterday.
About 350 have decided to return home in the face of a long wait at the border

For some Central American migrants in Tijuana, the American Dream is over before it even began.

Around 350 members of the first migrant caravan who recently reached the northern border city have decided to voluntarily return to their home countries - Honduras, in most cases - in the face of having to wait for months for the opportunity to file a request for asylum in the United States.

Some migrants who spoke to the newspaper Milenio claim they were misled about their chances of gaining entry to the U.S.

"[Migrant advocacy group] Pueblos Sin Fronteras told us not to worry, that there was going to be transportation, that Mexico was going to open the gates so that we didn't have to enter [the U.S.] illegally, via the river . . ." Honduran migrant Ulises López said, referring to the attempted border breach Sunday.
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Russian priest convicted of 46 counts of rape against boys under 14


RT
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:17 UTC
Hieromonk Meletiy
© pravyakutia.ru
Hieromonk Meletiy leads church service.
A Russian Orthodox priest, who sexually abused boys under the age of 14, has been sentenced to 17 years behind bars. While the priest was convicted of 46 rape counts, he was accused of molesting children nearly 90 times.

The rogue hieromonk Meletiy, Andrey Tkachenko, has served as the director of an Orthodox gymnasium in the Yakutia region since 2010. He was exposed and detained last March, initially facing two counts of sexually assaulting children.

As the investigation unfolded, the case grew to a truly terrifying scale. The priest ultimately faced 87 counts of sexual offences against boys aged below 14. 'Only' 46 counts were proven in court, however, which resulted in the sentence of 17 years at a maximum-security prison.

Apart from the jail time, the priest was slapped with a 400 thousand rubles ($6,000) fine and was ordered to get mandatory treatment from a psychiatrist.
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France: Woman claiming to have a bomb in her backpack barricades herself inside bank and threatens to blow it up


RT
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:12 UTC
French special forces
© Reuters
French special forces.
A woman barricaded herself into an LCL bank in a southern French town on Thursday, threatening to blow everything up. She was eventually apprehended by police, while no actual explosives were reportedly found.

The incident occurred in Ales town in the Occitanie region of France on Thursday morning. Le Parisien identified the perpetrator as a 60-year-old woman who was the bank's client. The woman claimed she had a bomb in a backpack.

An elite RAID police unit has been deployed to the area.

Police have confirmed the operation in the town, without giving any details.
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Mentally ill man detained after attempting to take 20 people hostage in Fuiggi, Italy, 4 people injured


RT
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:14 UTC
police Italy
© REUTERS / Manuel Silvestri
A 28-year-old man was detained after attempting to take 20 people hostage when he stormed a career development office in the central Italian town of Fiuggi. Four people were injured.

The man, who according to Italian media was unarmed, broke into the office and grabbed the director. He dragged him into a room with 20 students, pulled a female student towards him and told everyone not to move.

At that point police broke in and used pepper spray to stop him. A member of the Carabinieri, two police officers and a woman were injured.
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Brace Yourselves: We could be seeing a 163% meat tax thanks to the know-nothing 'social engineers'

Meadow Clark
The Organic Prepper
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
meat tax
How would you like to pay a 163% meat tax every time you want a steak or a burger? What about when you want some bacon with breakfast, or when you're craving a ham sandwich?

After much talk, economists and so-called health experts have finally decided what's best for society: no steak for you!

Do you think you and your family deserve an extra tax for having a steak every now and then? Well, brace yourselves...because social taxes are what's for dinner.

Remember when smoking was the only socially engineered target of government health nannies? Then fat, then sugar, then caffeine and now even soda.

The American public has been encouraged to gorge themselves on decadent, calorie-rich food for decades. Now people are being watched with microscopes and being shamed for doing just that. Or rather, for enjoying themselves occasionally because who can even afford steaks now? After all, you are responsible for other people's healthcare costs.

Comment: See also:

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New bill in New York would require government review of social media accounts and search engine history in order to buy a gun

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
gun control
A new bill would require citizens wishing to buy a gun to undergo a state sanctioned audit of their social media accounts and search engine history.

In one of the most Orwellian bills to date, lawmakers in New York have drafted and proposed a bill that will require a review of a citizens social media as well as their search engine history, going back years-just to buy a gun.

Senate Bill 9191 would establish an official investigation officer who would scour the social media posts and search engine history of anyone attempting to purchase a gun. It also applies to current gun owners who want to renew their licenses.


Comment: The onstitutional right to own a gun in the US is being taken away bit, by bit, by bit:

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CNN polls Europe to reveal depth of anti-Semitism

Richard Allen Greene
CNN
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:02 UTC
cnn poll europe
© CNN
Anti-Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade, a sweeping new survey by CNN reveals. More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world.

One in five said they have too much influence in the media and the same number believe they have too much influence in politics.

Meanwhile, a third of Europeans in the poll said they knew just a little or nothing at all about the Holocaust, the mass murder of some six million Jews in lands controlled by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s.

Those are among the key findings of a survey carried out by pollster ComRes for CNN. The CNN/ComRes poll interviewed more than 7,000 people across Europe, with more than 1,000 respondents each in Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland and Sweden.
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Four Maryland high school football players accused of raping teammates with broom

Elisha Fieldstadt
NBC News
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:16 UTC
Damascus High School
© Sarah L. Voisin / The Washington Post via Getty Images (file photo)
Four 15-year-old Maryland high school football players charged as adults with rape for sexually assaulting four teammates with a broom during a hazing incident have been released on bond.

Three of the Damascus High School athletes, who NBC News is not identifying, were charged with two counts of first-degree rape and two counts of attempted rape, according to District Court of Maryland documents. One of the athletes was charged with four counts of first-degree rape.

All four junior varsity athletes are charged with conspiracy to commit rape.

The students were each released Tuesday on $20,000 bond, according to court records.

A fifth teammate is accused of participating in at least one of the attacks and being charged as a juvenile but is also identified as one of four victims, charging documents show.
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No nazis in Ukraine? 200 nationalist militants take over Kiev shopping mall - cops only make 1 arrest


RT
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:42 UTC
Sokil and Svoboda
© Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko
Sokil and Svoboda activists march in Kiev in 2016
Militant protesters linked to Ukraine's ultranationalist Svoboda party have taken over a shopping center in Kiev, vandalizing the mall and demanding Russian businesses leave the country, while the police stood by and watched.

The mall takeover came two days after the protesters reportedly chucked smoke grenades and flares into the building, triggering the fire alarm and prompting an evacuation, as Hromadske radio reported. The masked group then barricaded the building's entrance with tires, and vandalized its windows with spray paint on Tuesday.


After two days of vandalism and provocation, around 200 of the group stormed the mall, demanding stores close down and blocking shoppers from making purchases. Around 30 riot police were on site, but seemed content to let the mob have the run of the mall.

Comment: And yet... Must be blind: Ex-ambassador McFaul sees no evidence that Ukraine's govt. supports neo-Nazis

Kristallnacht, anyone?

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Facebook blocks widely mocked photo of Macron & cocaine dealer for violating 'nudity and sex acts' policy


RT
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:55 UTC
macron middle finger
A widely mocked photo of the French president posing with a reported cocaine dealer and his middle finger-flipping cousin is purportedly being blocked on Facebook for violating the site's rules against "nudity and sexual acts."

French netizens are claiming that attempts to share the photograph - which was snapped during Emmanuel Macron's PR-disastrous visit to the island nation of Saint Martin - are being thwarted by the social media giant.

One Frenchman testified on Twitter that he tried to post the photograph along with a snarky caption ("Funny way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic") on Facebook - but that his internet masterpiece was prevented from going public. "Reason: Nudity! These people are crazy," the tweet added.

Comment: Veeery convenient....a favor to the Elysée?? The 'dreaded algorithm' is a convenient scapegoat when Facebook is called out for it's absurd censorship policies. See also:

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