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Over 100,000 flock to watch exiled ex-Catalan leader Puigdemont speak


RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:39 UTC
Catalan separatist supporters
© Reuters / Nacho Doce
Catalan separatist supporters hold Esteladas (Catalan separatist flags) during a rally in Perpignan, France
Catalonia independence supporters flocked to the French town of Perpignan for a huge rally to listen to former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont speaking to them in person for the first time since his exile.

The small southern French town of Perpignan is located in what Catalan independence supporters consider to be Northern Catalonia. With a population of 120,000, Perpignan suddenly witnessed just as many Catalonians flooding its streets. The town, located just 30 kilometers from the French border with Spain, became the venue for an event featuring a speech by Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan pro-independence leader who fled his home country following the ill-fated 2017 referendum.

Over 100,000 people joined the rally at a Perpignan Exhibition Center parking lot, according to various estimates. The organizers put the number at as many as 150,000. Some demonstrators went to the city the day before to not miss anything. The number of those trying to attend the event, organized by a group called the Council for the Catalan Republic and headed by Puigdemont himself, was so big that thousands of people were still stuck in traffic on the border when the exiled pro-independence leader was about to begin his speech.
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Potential voter fraud in Pennsylvania: Lawsuit claims voter rolls have multiple registrations, dead voters


WTAE Pittsburgh
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:43 UTC
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Allegheny County is being sued after being accused of not properly clearing voter rolls.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit that claims the voter rolls have more than 7,000 voters registered multiple times and lists more than 1,500 voters who are now dead.

The group also says one voter was registered seven times to vote.

"We are not assigning any kind of bad intent to the registered voters of Allegheny County. We don't even really believe they know this is happening. This appears to be errors that are occurring inside the four walls of the elections office," Public Interest Legal Foundation spokesman Logan Churchwell said.

This is not the first time that Allegheny County has been accused of not clearing records.

Action News Investigates found some of the same issues in 2004, including thousands of voters being registered twice and multiple votes being cast by the same people in the same elections.

The legal foundation is asking the county to increase its efforts to maintain voter lists.
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Israelis' support for freedom of speech and human rights groups declining


Middle East Monitor
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:11 UTC
Israeli
© Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency
Israeli people gather to protest against Israeli security forces' violences in Isawiya district of Eastern Jerusalem on 7 December 2019.
In a major international survey, only 37 per cent of Israelis said human rights groups should be able to operate freely, as reported by the Times of Israel.

The 34-nation poll, conducted by the US-based Pew Research Centre from May-October 2019, focused on views of, and support for, democracy and democratic institutions.

Support in Israel is "significantly lower than in most countries for freedom of expression, including an uncensored press, internet freedom and freedom for human rights groups to operate freely."

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Teenager tricks Twitter into verifying fake 2020 candidate with blue checkmark

Hanna Lustig
Insider
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:51 UTC

Comment: Meanwhile real, intelligent long-time commentators languish in Twitter no-man's land...


fake twitter blue check president candidate teenager
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An archived screenshot of the fake Andrew Walz account that Twitter verified.
Never underestimate the power of tech-savvy teenagers with some time on their hands. A 17-year-old high school student from upstate New York tricked Twitter into verifying a fake 2020 candidate, and now, his experiment is forcing the company to re-examine its much-talked-about election integrity measures.

"I want Twitter to succeed," the student said. "I love Twitter. I think it's a great platform and I've learned so much from it," the teen said in an interview with CNN Business, who agreed not to name the teen.

Here's how he brought Andrew Walz, a Republican businessman from Rhode Island, to life.
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Conservatives 'censoring themselves in the age of censorship'? CPAC kicks out InfoWars reporter, triggering conference row


RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:33 UTC
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© Reuters/Joshua Roberts
InfoWars founder Alex Jones at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon, Maryland
InfoWars was shown the door at this year's CPAC and journalist Owen Shroyer decided to hold court as he was being removed, demanding answers and calling the group hypocrites for censoring his outlet's voice.

Online censorship of conservative voices has been a major topic on panels at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Donald Trump Jr. told a crowd on Friday morning at the convention that censorship and bias against conservative voices is "probably a top three issue" with his father's "base" of voters.

Ironically, that very afternoon CPAC took part in some censorship themselves by kicking journalist Owen Shroyer of InfoWars out of the event.
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5 ways the radical Left steals childhood

Georgi Boorman
The Federalist
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:42 UTC
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The message our children are getting as the culture lurches leftward is clear: there's no truth, no God, no hope, and no forgiveness.

The sweet little face of seven-year-old James Younger headlined countless articles recently as his father fought in court to keep the boy's mother from starting the dangerous medical process of "gender transition."

James has been happy as himself, as a boy, as the father and friends of the family confirm. A long-time friend of the Younger family, Sarah Scott, attested, "James is blissfully happy as a boy. He loves to march around outside and yell, 'we are the only boy scout troop' or 'I'm the Leader of the wolf pack!'... He loves dressing as a super hero and sword fighting."

Those are the childhood memories he deserves. But James' case is not unique; legal battles are being waged all over the country as children are subjected to psychological abuse by parents who want to raise them as if they were the opposite sex.
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Illegal Israeli squatters uproot hundreds of olive trees near Bethlehem

The Palestinian Project
Medium
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:37 UTC
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© WAFA Images
Olive trees chopped by Israeli settlers in the south of the West Bank.
Israeli settlers today uprooted hundreds of olive and vine trees in the town of al-Khader, to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to Emad Dadoo, a local activist.

He told WAFA that settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Eliazar uprooted about 200 olive trees and 80 vine trees in lands belonging to Palestinian residents located close to the settlement.

He noted that settlers have recently been targeting village lands, especially those close to settlements, by razing lands, uprooting trees and preventing farmers access to their lands.

Comment: Palestine Information Center reports in the same week:
israel poison crops
© Tubas
Palestinian wheat fields poisoned in Jordan Valley
Israeli settlers on Monday morning destroyed Palestinian wheat fields with poisonous chemicals near al-Sakout village in the northern Jordan Valley.

Human rights activist Aref Daraghmeh said that Israeli settlers sprayed about 12 dunums of wheat fields with poisonous pesticides destroying and burning crops.

Daraghmeh said that settler attacks on Palestinian farmlands in the Jordan Valley fall in line with a large-scale scheme by the Israeli authorities aimed at forcing the Palestinians out of the area.

Al-Sakout is a Palestinian village on the border with Jordan. It was destroyed by the Israeli occupation army in 1967 along with 32 villages in the northern Jordan Valley.


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Mother furious after finding out school policy forbids her daughter from saying 'no' when asked to dance

Rachel Paula Abrahamson
TODAY
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 23:16 UTC
Rich Middle School

Rich Middle School
Alicia Hobson's 11-year-old daughter, Azlyn, was counting down the days until the Valentine's Day dance at her Utah middle school.

"She was so excited she could barely sleep," Hobson told TODAY Parents, noting that the sixth grader picked out her outfit a week ahead of time.

"It was supposed to be the best day ever," Hobson, 37, said.

But it wasn't.
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The left's insistence on pushing drag culture on children will only create resentment towards queers

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:12 UTC
tik tok drag queen child
© Tik Tok / ameliamarino89
Another day, and another piece of media is circulating the web that depicts a child in an uncomfortable situation. This time a drag queen dances suggestively for a small girl.

The video, uploaded on Tiktok, opens with a scantily clad male with his rear cheeks hanging out, crawling on hands and knees towards the child sitting in a chair. Taking on the air of a scene from a strip club, patrons of the restaurant clap and cheer. He then stands up with his short shorts, leaving little to the imagination, dances a bit, and then kneels next to the girl, as he says something to her while jiggling his booty.

This most recent event is yet another incident in a long list of them that have occurred throughout the past couple years. Girls at Pride events have engaged with men partaking in pup-play. A child drag queen named "Lactatia" of all things, stood for a photo op next to a naked man. Another drag kid named Desmond danced on stage in female attire as men threw money his way. A sexual predator was caught reading to children during drag queen story time. And another drag queen reading during a library event flashed his crotch towards the entire room.
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'Kid looks traumatized': Viral TikTok video showing drag queen dancing for little girl enrages Twitter


RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:06 UTC
tik tok drag queen child
An unsettling TikTok video, showing a drag queen dancing provocatively for a young child while adults cheer and laugh, has sparked outrage online, with many wondering how exactly the odd situation materialized.

The video shows the dancer, who is wearing a tight top with hot pants and high-heels, on the floor crawling toward the girl, who appears to be about five or six years old. She then walks away and returns to the girl, shaking her hips before bending down, embracing the child and kissing her cheek.

The 28-second long clip went viral on Friday, although it's unclear when or where it was recorded. A caption on the video explains that the "sweet little girl asked her mom to get a better view" of the drag queen.

Comment: Welcome to the world that postmodern intersectional feminists wanted to create.

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