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ICE agents confirm migrant 'child recycling' case in El Paso sector

Bob Price
Breitbart
Sat, 04 May 2019 19:55 UTC
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
© Getty ImagesU.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents helped confirm a migrant "child recycling" case in the El Paso Sector. They discovered child had been "recycled" in at least two prior instances, officials stated.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents teamed up with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers and Border Patrol agents under a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program targeting migrant "child recycling" and fraudulent familial claims made by Central American migrants. Border Patrol agents and CBP OFO officers processing large Central American migrant groups identified a possible fraudulent family migrant claim, according to information obtained from CBP officials.

A CBP officer noticed several inconsistencies that led him to believe a child was not related to the alleged family member. Under continuing questioning from the OFO officer, Border Patrol agents, and the HSI agents, officials obtained enough evidence to determine the child had been "recycled" in at least two other occasions, officials stated.
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Sri Lanka: Explosives found buried in backyard of mosque


Daily Mirror
Sat, 04 May 2019 19:10 UTC
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Three locally made bombs and 100 grams of ammonia were found buried in the backyard of a mosque at Welipenna last night, police said.

The explosives were recovered during a joint operation carried out by the STF and the police.

Police said a 42-year-old suspect was arrested over the recovery of explosives.

Meanwhile, the police seized 16 circuit boards of high technology, 16 SIM cards, several compacts discs, computer accessories and a car in a house at Pirivena Mawatha in Mount Lavinia.

Comment: Sri Lankan officials remain on high alert for any future attacks and still believe ISIS is responsible:
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena has revealed that it believes Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) is behind the Easter Sunday attacks and up to 30 people linked to the terrorist group are still at large.

"We have already identified all active members of the group and it's a case of now arresting them," Sirisena told Reuters on Saturday.

He said the security forces would "eradicate terrorism" and restore stability before a presidential election later this year.

"Elections cannot be postponed, therefore before the elections I will bring about stability and I will eradicate terrorism," he added.

Sri Lankan authorities remain on high alert in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 250 people two weeks ago. Earlier this week, authorities warned of "another wave of attacks," possibly by people disguised as military.


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Cat returns home 475 days after it went missing in the Montecito, California mudslide

Alys Martinez
KEYT News
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:07 UTC
cat Diamond
© UnknownMissing cat 'Diamond'
A Montecito family is overjoyed after being reunited with their beloved cat that was missing for 475 days. The last time the Strogoff's saw Diamond was one day before the Montecito Mudslide destroyed their property and surrounding neighborhood.

Ten-year-old Alexander, and 7-year-old twins Benjamin and Violet Strogoff loved Diamond because, "she was calm and played with them like a dog," said their mom Noelle.

The family decided to evacuate their home when warnings came in about the impending storm. They left quickly and couldn't round up their two cats, Diamond and Huguette, in time. When they returned home a few days later to assess the damage to their property, their pets were nowhere to be found.

"I had no idea that what happened was going to happen and assumed they would be fine. When we got back, we could't find them," Noelle Strogoff said.

The family had to relocate for a year until their property was repaired. They returned home in January 2019, but were still longing for their pets.
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Gateway to Sharia Law? Muslim community patrol units hit the streets of Brooklyn


RT
Sat, 04 May 2019 18:50 UTC
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They're not cops or armed vigilantes, but Brooklyn's new 'Muslim patrol' hopes to work with police to help make their neighborhood more Muslim-friendly. RT's Caleb Maupin joined the patrol on its beat.

Founded by a Yemeni migrant and boasting at least 30 members, the Muslim Community Patrol's (MCP) main aim is to be the "eyes and ears" of Brooklyn's Muslim community. With uniforms and marked cars complete with sirens, the group could easily be mistaken for regular police - but don't be fooled. The patrolmen are unarmed and have no police powers. Instead, the group radios to police if they encounter something that requires police action - or firepower. The volunteer-based organization is believed to be the first Muslim 'patrol' of its kind in the United States.

The patrol was founded in response to concerns over an uptick in Islamophobia, but they do much more than just patrol the streets. One volunteer who spoke with Maupin said that the group offers counseling, feeds the homeless, and participates in other community outreach projects.

Comment: Though this Muslim patrols seems rather innocuous, sometimes things can go south rather quickly:

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Man vandalizes Lockheed Martin offices in protest of US-backed Saudi war on Yemen

Jennifer Wadsworth
San Jose Inside
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:40 UTC
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© Bryce DruzinA former reporter was charged with felony vandalism after tagging the defense manufacturer’s Palo Alto office.
Bryce Druzin said he's followed news of the U.S.-backed Saudi war in Yemen with increasing dismay over the years. But last weekend, he felt compelled to express his horror over the humanitarian crisis unfolding 9,000 miles away by risking arrest.

The 34-year-old South Bay native marched in broad daylight Saturday to Lockheed Martin's Palo Alto offices and spray-painted the word "Yemen" in blood-red letters over the defense contractor's signs to protest its weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.

At the base of some stairs leading to the main entrance, he scrawled "8-9-18," the date when a Saudi-led coalition dropped a 500-pound, laser-guided Lockheed Martin-made MK 82 bomb on a school bus, killing 44 children.

Druzin then called Palo Alto police and waited outside the Hanover Street facility for them to take him into custody. Authorities booked him in jail on a charge of felony vandalism, releasing him the next morning on his own recognizance.

Comment: See also:

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Eye 1

John Kelly joins unaccompanied migrant children shelter board

Anne Flaherty and Quinn Owen
ABC News
Fri, 03 May 2019 09:26 UTC
John Kelly
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly has joined the board of directors for a company that operates shelters for undocumented migrant children.

Kelly was a top aide to President Donald Trump when he enacted his "zero-tolerance" policy at the border which forced the separation of some 2,700 children from their families in a matter of weeks and sent them to privately run shelters across the U.S.

The Trump administration has since abandoned forced family separations and reunited almost all of those families under a court order. But the government says some 12,650 children remain in shelters as of this week - mostly older children and teens who arrived at the border alone and are waiting to be placed with sponsors.

Caliburn International, the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services - which oversees one of the largest shelters for migrant children - announced Friday that Kelly would join the board with several other retired military brass. CBS News first reported the appointment.
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'House of horror': CCTV exposes Indian businessman's alleged sexual abuse of underage girls


RT
Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00 UTC
pedophile Vimal Chand
© Senior Superintendent of Police MeerutVimal Chand and another person have been arrested in connection with the case.
An upmarket house in northern India is at the center of a child abuse probe as CCTV footage has allegedly revealed that a retired insurance executive sexually exploited several underage girls over a two-year period.

Vimal Chand allegedly abused children as young as 10 years old in his home in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, with police saying that he likely recorded the encounters on the property's 13 CCTV cameras for voyeuristic reasons, the Times of India reports.
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Assange's father slams US pursuit of Wikileaks founder as 'revenge' for exposing war destruction


RT
Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00 UTC
John Shipton
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Julian Assange's father John Shipton has blasted the US for seeking "vindictive revenge" on his son for WikiLeaks exposing the US "destruction" of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria and the "millions killed" in wars.

Assange is being punished for exposing the "grand narrative of every heinous crime of the late 20th century," Lipton told protesters at a rally in Sydney, Australia, on Friday.

"The consequence of WikiLeaks revealing these crimes, the destruction of Iraq, the destruction of Afghanistan, the destruction of Syria, the destruction of Libya, millions killed, they want their vindictive revenge," he said.
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No Entry

Modern day book-burning: Facebook's most recent purge and the attack on free speech

Danielle Ryan
RT
Sat, 04 May 2019 15:52 UTC
Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Louis Farrakhan
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When social media platforms simultaneously banned Alex Jones last summer, I wrote that the decision was merely a "warning shot against dissent." The latest Facebook bans against more conservative figures proves that point.

Facebook, citing company policies on "hate organizations," has now banned Infowars, Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Louis Farrakhan, among others. If that was not bad enough, now even merely posting a link to Infowars content could get you in trouble, too.

When I criticized the earlier bans against Jones, I prefaced it by saying that I was not a fan, lest anyone assume my words were tantamount to an endorsement of his content or opinions. But there should be no need for such a semi-apologetic disclaimer. This is straight-up censorship and it should be condemned, regardless of anyone's personal feelings toward the targets.

The initial ban on Jones was an attempt to test the waters; to see how people might react to a popular figure being wiped from social media existence. When establishment journalists whooped and cheered in celebration, Facebook (and the rest) were emboldened. Consequently, we are now sliding down the slippery slope of internet censorship at frighteningly quick pace - and they are still cheering. Most news reports on the new ban have framed it positively as Facebook 'taking action' and finally doing the right thing.
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Tyson recalls additional 11.7 million pounds of chicken strips

Mark Osborne
ABC News
Sat, 04 May 2019 03:09 UTC
Tyson chicken
Tyson Foods is massively expanding a previous recall for its brand of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips due to consumers finding pieces of metal in them.

The company issued a recall for 69,093 pounds of chicken strips on March 21, but it is now expanding that to 11,829,517 million pounds, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.

The recall was announced on Saturday.

The FSIS had initially received two complaints of "extraneous material" in the chicken, but it has now received six complaints. There have been three oral injuries due to people biting into the chicken strips contaminated with metal pieces.
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