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Obama-era family detention center 'no place for human beings' according to New York Times op-ed

Brian Flood
Fox News
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:45 UTC

An asylum seeker detailed horrific conditions she faced at a family detention center during the Obama administration.

The New York Times published a shocking first-hand account of the horrific conditions a mother and her young son faced after immigrating to the United States from El Salvador. Unfortunately for the mainstream media that continues to portray President Trump as the face of immigration crisis - the asylum seeker's tragic account happened in 2014.

The author of the Op-Ed wrote on the condition of anonymity because of "gang-related threats" her family has faced. She explained that she wanted to flee the violence of her native El Salvador, so she came to the United States, seeking a new life, during President Barack Obama's second term in the White House.

"Instead, I found myself locked in a family immigration detention center. It's an experience that I wouldn't wish on anyone," she wrote.

The mainstream media has painted Trump as the face of the immigration crisis, but the Times piece illustrates that it is an ongoing issue that has been a series problem since the current president was simply a real estate mogul. However, the woman who sought asylum in 2014 never mentioned Obama in her chilling account. Trump was mentioned by the second paragraph, when the mother noted that she doesn't believe family detention is the answer to the outcry regarding children separated from their parents.

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28-year-old socialist shocks New York City by defeating 10-term incumbent

RT
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:01 UTC

A 28-year-old socialist has shaken up New York politics and sent shockwaves through the Democratic Party by defeating 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in the party's congressional primary.

The political newcomer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was working as a server in a New York restaurant just nine months ago, is a former volunteer for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign and comes from a Puerto Rican family. She won the primary with 57.5 percent of the vote in a largely ethnic-minority district.

Crowley, an establishment Democrat, who had been whispered about as a future leader of the party, had not faced a challenger from the left in 14 years - and his defeat will surely have come as a major shock.

Comment: Ocasio-Cortez still shares a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome with the rest of the Left. Breitbart reports:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old democratic socialist who defeated incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), told CNN on Wednesday she would support the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

"Would you push for a Trump impeachment should you win?" CNN's Poppy Harlow asked the Bernie Sanders-supporting candidate.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez replied, "Well, I would. I would support impeachment. I think that, you know, we have the grounds to do it."

Head of 'child advocacy center' arrested for child pornography & attempt to rape 2 year olds

Emily Crane
Daily Mail
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:01 UTC

He's with her: Davis posted this picture after Hillary Clinton's election defeat, suggesting he had campaigned for the 2016 loser

The head of a charity that campaigns against sexual violence has been arrested in New York for child pornography and allegedly trying to meet with children as young as two for sex.

Joel Davis, 22, is accused of trying to set up sexual encounters between himself and young children, as well as soliciting an undercover FBI agent to send sexually explicit videos of minors.

The New Yorker was arrested on Tuesday on child sex abuse and child pornography charges.

Davis is the chairman of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict - an organization devoted to ending sexual violence.

Comment: Further reading: Netflix: N-bombs, NOT OK; Sexual Exploitation of Children, OK

Netflix: N-bombs, NOT OK; Sexual Exploitation of Children, OK

Doug DiPasquale
Sott.net
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:00 UTC

Taking a look at the #boycottnetflix hashtag on Twitter, it seems that lots of people have reason to be pissed at the streaming service. If you sort through the people who are mad about the media giant cancelling their favourite shows, and the reactionary cancellations due to the service carrying the latest Star Wars travesty, you'll find the two biggest reasons people are calling for boycotts and cancelling their accounts are because the Netflix CEO was a little too comfortable with the N-word (for which he was fired) and that the streaming service has made a deal with Barack and Michelle Obama to create new content.

The N-word thing is kinda weird, in so much as people are boycotting the service after Netflix fired the offending... offender. The hashtag seems to be being used by anti-racists, so I'm not sure what they're trying to accomplish there. It kind of seems like they're sending the opposite message of what's intended, unless they think the company should be taught a lesson for ever having someone on staff who regularly throws around N-bombs, despite the fact that they tried to do the right thing by firing him. But no one ever accused progressives of being intelligent in their strategies.

The Obama thing - fine. I'm sure Netflix crunched the numbers and figured out how many QAnon-following MAGA conservatives they'd lose versus how many dyed-in-the-wool Obama-4eva regressive lefties they'd gain and made their choice accordingly. From a business perspective, I can't really fault them for that one. Because of the willing delusion of his scores of fans, Obama 4eva = $$$.

Man stabbed to death in north London, 81st murder this year

RT
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:20 UTC

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FILE PHOTO: The Metropolitan Police said the boy remains in a critical condition, while the woman’s injuries are not life threatening

Scotland Yard has launched its 81st murder investigation this year after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in Edmonton, north London.

London's Metropolitan Police said officers were called, shortly after 6:30 pm on Wednesday, to reports of a brawl between baseball bat-wielding men.

The victim was found with stab wounds on Cavendish Road, despite paramedics' attempts to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

"At this early stage officers retain an open mind as to motive," a police spokesman said.

Comment: Clearly the sky-rocketing rates of violent crime are a symptom of a much wider problem plaguing the UK, which include decades of 'austerity' induced poverty to the overall deterioration of western society:

Hundreds of maids ready to escape abusive employees in Saudi Arabia

Middle East Eye
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:20 UTC

At least 22 Bangladeshi women returned to their home country on Tuesday after escaping abusive employers in Saudi Arabia - as hundreds of other female workers remain in immigration centres inside the country awaiting repatriation.

The returnees told aid workers that Saudi bosses inflicted physical and sexual abuse, which drove them all to run away.

Many of the women coming back to Bangladesh have returned home with the help of NGO BRAC's migration programme and waited months to go back. The organisation helps Bangladeshi female and male overseas workers escape their abusive employers.

"Several women we spoke to said the abuse began after demanding unpaid wages," Noyon al-Amin, a caseworker for BRAC, told Middle East Eye.

Comment: The way a society treats the less fortunate amongst them is very telling. And these kinds of stories of slave labour and sickening violence are a common occurrence from those who've worked in Saudi Arabia:

5 people dead as government plane crashes in Mumbai

Sputnik
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:00 UTC

The plane crashed while landing at the Mumbai Airport

Indian police say a chartered plane belonging to a state government has crashed in a busy district of Mumbai, the country's financial and entertainment capital.

It is unclear how many people were on board the aircraft, five people have been found dead, the police said.

"Five people have succumbed to their injuries after the chartered plane crashed, including one pilot, three co-passengers and a pedestrian," a Mumbai police spokesman said.

White Helmets are helping Syrian militants prepare 'false flag' chemical attack, warn Idlib residents

RT
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:16 UTC

The notorious White Helmets have brought chemicals, protective gear and cameras to militant-controlled Idlib in Syria, in an apparent preparation of yet another false-flag attack, locals told the Russian Reconciliation Center.

A convoy of six vehicles, bearing the emblems of the White Helmets, reportedly arrived in the capital of Idlib province over the weekend, the head of the Russian Reconciliation Center, major general Aleksey Tsygankov, told journalists on Wednesday.

One of the trucks was loaded with missiles and canisters containing unknown substances, as well as protective gear and filming equipment. Local residents reported seeing four persons, wearing hazmat protection gear, filling the warheads with this liquid and some unknown powder. The convoy then reportedly left for the small town of Maarat al-Numaan, south of the city of Idlib.

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Veteran lights himself on fire in front of Georgia Capitol to protest horrific treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

A veteran protesting the VA, burned 90 percent of his body when he strapped homemade incendiary devices to himself and covered himself in flammable liquid.

In a horrific scene that was meant to raise awareness about the cruel treatment he endured from the Department of Veterans Affairs, an Air Force Veteran used a combination of fireworks and gasoline to set himself on fire.

John Michael Watts, 58, approached the Georgia Capitol in downtown Atlanta around 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday and within minutes, he was engulfed in flames that burned 90 percent of his body.

Where does one draw the line in today's crazed and politicized America?

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:41 UTC

If you vote for Trump, then you the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border like Nazis going 'you here, you here'.
- Donny Deutsch on MSNBC last week

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

With each passing day, Trump's hardcore supporters and detractors become more deeply entrenched in their respective corners and grow more hysterical. With every turn of the news cycle, we see two groups increasingly and equally convinced that only they and their allies can save the nation from total ruin. As someone who isn't a cheerleader for any politician or political party, it's fascinating to watch. It's also made me consider where to draw the line when it comes to political action or commentary.

First off, we need to understand that an increasingly centralized, corrupt and unaccountable government making decisions for 325 million people will be inherently and systemically abusive toward the citizenry. To confront this reality we need resistance, but it can't be the superficial, purely partisan kind.

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Society's Child

Obama-era family detention center 'no place for human beings' according to New York Times op-ed

28-year-old socialist shocks New York City by defeating 10-term incumbent

Head of 'child advocacy center' arrested for child pornography & attempt to rape 2 year olds

Netflix: N-bombs, NOT OK; Sexual Exploitation of Children, OK

Man stabbed to death in north London, 81st murder this year

Hundreds of maids ready to escape abusive employees in Saudi Arabia

5 people dead as government plane crashes in Mumbai

White Helmets are helping Syrian militants prepare 'false flag' chemical attack, warn Idlib residents

Veteran lights himself on fire in front of Georgia Capitol to protest horrific treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs

Where does one draw the line in today's crazed and politicized America?

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