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Not likely: Activists demand the arrest of Mohammed Bin Salman over 'Yemen war crimes'


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:36 UTC
Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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Human rights activists are calling on British authorities to arrest Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his imminent visit to the country. They say he must be held responsible for alleged war crimes carried out in Yemen.

The director of Human Rights for Yemen, Kim Sharif, told RT she has submitted an application to Westminster Magistrates' Court and the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) to issue a warrant for the prince's arrest. He is expected to visit Britain in the coming weeks.

"We oppose his visit in an official capacity because of the accusations of war crimes in relation to the matter of Yemen," Sharif said. "It would not be good for us, Britain... to be receiving brutal dictators such as this man.

"If he wants to submit to the UK authorities to answer to war crimes, he is welcome," she added.

Sharif said Saudi forces are committing war crimes and violating the Geneva Conventions and their protocols with impunity.
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Mexico to send troops after record 25,000 murders

Michael O'Boyle and Diego Ore
Reuters
Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:26 UTC
soldier stands guard next to a crime scene
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A soldier stands guard next to a crime scene, where men were killed inside a home by unknown assailants, in the municipality of San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico, January 27, 2018. Picture taken January 27, 2018.
Cops to crack down on criminal groups in regions where a surge in violence led to more than 25,000 murders last year.

National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said federal police troops will work with local officials to round up known major criminals and bolster investigations.

The aim was "to recover peace and calm for all Mexicans," he said. He did not provide details on the number of federal police to be deployed.
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Karma in action? Trophy hunter mysteriously shot dead on South Africa expedition


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:48 UTC
Hunter
© Pero Jelinić / Facebook
A Croatian trophy hunter who traveled to South Africa after killing "everything that could be hunted in Europe" was inexplicably shot dead while aiming for a lion.

Pero Jelinić, 75, a hotelier from the Croatian island of Pag, had already killed a lion and was aiming for another on Saturday when a stray bullet struck him on a remote farm.

Jelinić travelled to Leeubosch Lodge in the North West province of South Africa with two friends to "complete his extensive trophy collection" and was particularly keen to claim the head of a lion "to crown his rich hunting career," according to his friend and fellow hunter, Slavko Pernar.

"Pero was a passionate hunter of big and small game, and in search of that he travelled most of the world," Pernar told Croatia's Jutarnji List newspaper.
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More than 800 US rabbis urge Israel to halt deportation of African migrants


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:56 UTC
African migrants protest outside Israel's Supreme Court
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African migrants protest outside Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem on January 26, 2017.
More than 800 rabbis and other Jewish clergy in the US have signed a letter calling on Israel to reverse its plan to deport African migrants, arguing the asylum seekers are "escaping torture, enslavement, and war."

"As a country founded by refugees, and whose early leaders helped to craft the 1951 International Convention on the Status of Refugees, Israel must not deport those seeking asylum within its borders," reads the letter, which was written by the Jewish groups New Israel Fund, HIAS, T'ruah, and Right Now.

"We Jews know far too well what happens when the world closes its doors to those forced to flee their homes," the letter continues. "The asylum seekers who have come to Israel are escaping torture, enslavement, and war. We are angered by reports that many of those who have been deported to Africa have already suffered rape, robbery, torture, and human trafficking."

Comment: The fact is Israel is for Jews only, anyone else need not apply just ask the Palestinians.

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How my 'dead body' photo-shoot ended up on millions of tobacco products across Europe - and I don't smoke

Morwenna Ferrier
Guardian
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:15 UTC
tom fraine tobacco photoshoot
In 2012, I decided to take a year-long sabbatical in Europe, eventually settling on Berlin. I'm quite a structured, career-minded person and I wanted to see what it was like to move somewhere with no plan, no friends and no money.

I saw an advert looking for models for tobacco warnings. It was paid, so I applied and made the shortlist. I asked what I needed to bring to wear and they sent me a one-line email saying: "This is what we need you to do," and attached a picture of a naked guy curled up in a ball. They told me I would get €100.

Comment: And there you have it; anti-tobacco propaganda conjured up on a photoshoot using models and with no professional medical direction to qualify what they're depicting.

Even so, medicine has completely lost sight of the reality of the many benefits of tobacco smoking and has instead been brainwashed to believe lies with skewed data, decades of government propaganda while being lobbied hard by pharmaceutical companies looking to hawk their nicotine pills, patches and 'popcorn lung' creating e-cigs - as well as medications that have side-effects some of which were later revealed to be linked to 3,063 serious injuries, 78 deaths, many of which were suicides.

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Court rules boy brought into US illegally has no right to govt-funded lawyer


RT
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:23 UTC
Courtroom Judge justice US
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A minor brought into the US from Honduras illegally by his mother does not have a constitutional right to a counsel in immigration proceedings at the government's expense, a federal appeals court has ruled.

On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a deportation order against C.J.L.G., an underage boy from Honduras who fled gang violence with his mother and entered the US illegally in 2014.

In a 54-page ruling, the three-judge panel based in San Francisco, California, declared "it is not established law that alien minors are categorically entitled to government-funded, court-appointed counsel."
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Jordan Peterson's secret weapon

Jonathon Van Maren
The Bridgehead
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:19 UTC
Peterson
As Dr. Jordan B. Peterson trots the globe for the launch of his new book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, it has been immensely amusing for me (and millions of others) to watch progressive media figures invite him into their studios, come out swinging their hatchets, and miss entirely while Peterson looks alternatively bemused and mildly concerned at their comprehension abilities. His now-famous interview with Cathy Newman of Channel 4 has racked up nearly five million views, and some are already referring to it as a definitive defeat in the progressive war against common sense.

What I think is important to note is that a key reason journalists like Newman seem so utterly befuddled by Peterson is that most of them are so trapped in their elitist fishbowls that they cannot fathom that they might be wrong, and that public intellectuals with millions of followers reject most of their flimsy dogmas out of hand. Peterson's interviewers shift between attempting to mischaracterize his positions to demonize him, goggling in mute shock when he calmly dismembers their ill-thought out positions, and attempting to ambush him with various accusations of association with the alt-right.
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"Trans-age" man claims that he's a six-year-old girl trapped in a man's body

Jonathon Van Maren
The Bridgehead
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:24 UTC
Paul
Ideas have consequences-that might be cliché, but it's about time our culture remembered that. The transgender phenomenon, which has already spawned ludicrously serious conversations about whether or not "trans-race" is a thing, with white lady Rachel Dolezal claiming to be black, and "trans-age" having some insist that they are not the age that they actually are. This sort of thing used to be called a "mid-life crisis," but now it means that a Toronto guy named Paul in his fifties actually managed to find "adoptive parents" after abandoning his wife and seven kids-and now lives as a "six-year-old girl" named Stefonknee. And the media treated Paul's delusions with sympathy, if not support:

Stefonknee says her 'adoptive' family, which consists of an older couple and their children and young grandchildren, are completely accepting of her identifying as a little girl. She says she's living as a six-year-old girl because it's something she could never do when was in grade school.

Comment: Man tries to escape child sex assault charges by claiming to be 'trans-age'

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Transgender beauticians arrested in Indonesia for "teasing", given "manly" and "moral" training amid LGBT crackdown


Channel News Asia
Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:47 UTC
Indonesia transgender arrested man training
© AFP/CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN
One of two Indonesian men is publicly caned for having gay sex in Aceh in May last year.
Indonesian police forcibly cut the hair of a group of transgender women and made them wear male clothing, authorities said on Monday (Jan 29), amid a crackdown on the LGBT community in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation.

The incident happened after police raided several beauty salons in conservative Aceh province on Sunday and rounded up a dozen transgender employees over claims they had teased a group of boys.

Police accused the employees of violating the province's religious laws.

Comment: While the West has gone to the other extreme of indoctrinating children about transgenderism and homosexuality - which affects a minute 0.6% of the population - arresting people who are doing no harm (depending on the accusation of "teasing", of course) won't change things. And yet, as the article states, Aceh is the only place where it is illegal to be gay or transgender in the region so those arrested did have other options:

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Stockton, CA, attempts Universal Basic Income experiment after bankruptcy, overspending and decades of failed diversification

Sam Harnett
KQED News
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:00 UTC
Stockton universal basic income
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An aging sign is seen at Stockton City Hall on June 27, 2012
Wage stagnation. Rising housing prices. Loss of middle-class jobs. The looming threat of automation. These are some of the problems facing Stockton and its residents, but the city's mayor, Michael Tubbs, says his city is far from unique.

Stockton is one of many Bay Area cities on the fringe of the wealth accumulating in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. The Central Valley city went bankrupt in 2012, and for decades it has been trying to diversify its agriculture-based economy.

"I feel that as mayor it's my responsibility to do all I could to begin figuring out what's the best way to make sure that folks in our community have a real economic floor," Tubbs said.

Comment: While it may be a worthy experiment in these particularly dire economic times, it does point to some major flaws in our current system that these interventions are required. Because the idea isn't without its potentially serious problems: Automation, economic collapse, basic income slavery: Our dystopic future?

Stockton isn't the only place giving the idea a go:

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