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California: Judge approves shutdown of large homeless camp, wants to put residents in motels

NewsMax
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:21 UTC

Authorities are being allowed to shut down a large homeless encampment in Southern California and move hundreds of tent-dwellers into motel rooms under an agreement Tuesday between county officials and lawyers who sued to protect tent-dwellers' rights.

U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter lifted a stay Tuesday morning that had blocked the county from making arrests in the riverbed, setting up an impromptu "courtroom" with a table and chairs in the parking lot of the Honda Center arena, home of the Anaheim Ducks hockey team.

People will be moved off a two-mile stretch of a riverbed trail in Orange County to motels and other shelter as part of the deal, which is being watched by advocates elsewhere who are seeking solutions for homelessness.

Comment: While it's a nice gesture to be putting homeless people up in hotel rooms, it hardly seems like a tenable, long-term solution. And given things are going to get a lot worse, with homelessness only increasing as the world burns, it's unlikely this could only be a one-off, band-aid solution.

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Governor of Florida announces raising the age of eligibility for purchasing a rifle

Micah Rate
Bearing Arms
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:50 UTC

Florida Gov. Rick Scott

Over the course of the last week, the gun control debate has touched on a number of different proposals, from banning AR-15s, bump stocks and high capacity magazines, to changing the way we approach mental health and even raising the age of eligibility for purchasing a rifle. Friday morning, Florida Gov. Rick Scott decided to support the latter.

In a press conference, Gov. Scott issued a statement saying he would support requiring residents of the state of Florida to be 21 years or older to purchase any firearm. However, he says there would be exceptions. The governor explained, "There will be exceptions for active duty, and reserved military and spouses, national guard members, and law enforcement."

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Florida shooting survivor's father says CNN insinuated that they wanted to "espouse a certain narrative"

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:48 UTC

CNN is not out of the woods with the allegations that it scripted questions for their town hall event, which quickly went off the rails, devolving into a two-hour bashing of law-abiding gun owners and the National Rifle Association. Colton Haab, a survivor of the February 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, alleged that CNN re-wrote his question, and that they told him to "stick to the script." Well, it seems that wasn't the case; a doctored email allegedly from CNN was circulated to Fox News and the Huffington Post, which prompted the network to release the email exchange (via Business Insider):

On Friday afternoon, Fox News and the HuffPost reached out to CNN to verify emails between the Haabs and Stevenson that they received from Colton.

A CNN source provided Colton's version of the emails, as well as their versions of all of the communications between the Haabs and CNN, to Business Insider.

In CNN's version of one email, Stevenson told Glenn that Colton needed to stick to a question that he and Stevenson "discussed on the phone that he submitted." But in the version of the email provided by Colton to Fox and HuffPost, the phrase, "that he submitted" is deleted.

According to the metadata of the Word document containing the email that was provided to Fox, it appears that Glenn last edited it.

"It is unfortunate that an effort to discredit CNN and the town hall with doctored emails has taken any attention away from the purpose of the event," a CNN spokesman told Business Insider. "However, when presented with doctored email exchanges, we felt the need to set the record straight."

Glenn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Comment: See also: Florida shooting survivor Colton Haab doubles down on claim that CNN's entire town hall was scripted. Haab insists it was scripted, but in this case it looks like the truth probably lies in the middle. Haab had provided a question CNN deemed acceptable. Once they saw what other questions he wanted to ask, they told him to stick to the script, i.e., the original question. While not quite as sensational as Haab makes it seem, it does show that CNN only wants to present a certain narrative, as Mr. Klein confirms above.

Israel now blames 'pilot error' for F-16 crash in Syria operation

RT
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 02:36 UTC

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet, shot down by Syrian air defenses during Israeli raids on Iranian targets earlier this month, apparently crashed only because its pilot made a mistake, an Israeli Air Force investigation has claimed.

On February 10, the Israeli Air Force lost one of its supersonic fighters while striking Iranian targets on Syrian territory. Tel Aviv had launched the biggest air raid operation in over three decades after intercepting an Iranian drone in Israeli airspace. Swiftly reacting to the ongoing "retaliatory attack," the Syrian government activated its air defenses in order to try and intercept incoming missiles - and eventually hit one of the Israeli F-16 fighter jets which had breached Syrian airspace.

On Sunday, the Israelis confirmed that the F-16 was taken down by the Soviet-built S-200 surface-to-air (SAM) missile system, known to NATO as the SA-5.

Following the incident, in which both pilots of the Israeli aircraft survived, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched its own investigation into the causes of the crash. After analyzing the chronological order of events during the Israeli strikes and the Syrian response to it, the internal review of the Israeli experts determined that a pilot mistake was responsible for the F-16 takedown.

Comment: No pressure there. The next pilot error over Syrian air space may very well trigger Israel into its long sought war with Iran and friends.

Suspicious incident: Palestinian fisherman killed off Gaza coast by Israeli forces

RT
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:28 UTC

A Palestinian man has been shot dead by the Israeli Defense Forces after his boat breached the boundaries of a designated fishing zone. The IDF described the vessel as "suspicious" in their comments on the incident.

As a boat carrying three Palestinians strayed from the fishing zone off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF immediately "conducted an arrest protocol," the Israeli military said in a statement, cited by the local media.

The soldiers allegedly called on the vessel to stop and fired warning shots before targeting the boat directly, the statement notes. "As a result of the gunfire, one of the suspects was seriously injured and later died of his wounds," the Israeli military said. The other two people in the boat were detained for questioning.

The IDF did not mention any particular provocative actions on the part of the Palestinians, except for them leaving the designated fishing zone, yet still referred to the vessel as "suspicious." No Israeli soldiers were injured in the incident.

The Gaza Fisherman's Union identified the three men as Mahmoud Adel Abu Riala, 18, Ismail Salah Abu Riala, 18, and Ahed Hassan Abu Ali, 26. "We are sure that the wounded are fishermen who went out to sea to make a living - and nothing else," the head of the union told Haaretz daily.

Comment: The IDF will use any excuse, or none at all, in its perpetual 'open season' on Palestinians.

100% legal: Cops confiscate firearms, sell them to make a profit

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

As calls for gun control increase among the parties that claim it would put an end to mass shootings, an investigation is revealing that state sheriff's deputies are taking the firearms they have seized from individuals and re-selling them to generate revenue - only to find that some of the guns go on to be used in other crimes.

According to the results of an investigation reported by the Associated Press, in the state of Washington alone, "more than a dozen of the guns sold by law enforcement since 2010 ended up in new crimes."

The firearms are also typically sold to arms dealers in large batches, with a recent lot of 331 guns being transferred from the Washington State Patrol to a gun dealer in Knoxville, Tennessee. Included in that batch were at least five assault rifles.

Not only are state police re-selling firearms, they are selling them at cheap prices, ensuring that they will continue to receive revenue in return for the items they obtained for free. As the investigation noted, while a new AR-15 costs between $650 and $950 online, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force auctioned two of the firearms for $250 and $370 each.

Comment: Is there some reason not to install a 'middle man' retail gun sales mechanism to separate police from public buyers?

Public cost of Obama library estimated $175M

Dom Calicchio
Fox News
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

The planned Obama Presidential Center in Chicago is being privately funded, but on Friday city officials estimated how much taxpayers will pay for roadwork and other construction around the center: $175 million.

It was the first time city officials put a specific dollar figure on the expected cost to the public, the Chicago Tribune reported. "These proposed investments are intended to make the (center) and surrounding Jackson Park a world-class destination on par with Chicago's Museum Campus," the city's Department of Transportation (CDOT) told the newspaper, in a statement accompanying the figures.

The planned taxpayer-funded work would include widening portions of some surrounding streets and constructing four or five new underpasses, the report said.

Comment: So...the taxpayers pay into the library project and then the city owns a cash generator that doesn't economically serve the neighborhood surrounding it.

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Tory MP forced to grovel an apology to Jeremy Corbyn over false spy claim

Lizzy Buchan
Independent
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

A Tory MP has been forced to issue a groveling apology and to make a "substantial" donation to charity after making false claims about Jeremy Corbyn's links with communist spies.

Ben Bradley said his comments were "wholly untrue and false" and agreed to pay out an undisclosed sum to a homeless charity and a food bank in his Mansfield constituency.

Lawyers acting for the Labour leader contacted Mr Bradley this week over a potentially libellous tweet, in which he made unsubstantiated allegations about Mr Corbyn's interactions with a Czech agent who was posing as a diplomat.

Berlin: Antifa and police shut down women's march

William
Defend Europa
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC

The liberal establishment once again showed its true colours on Saturday, when the Police teamed up with Antifa to shut down a women's march in Berlin.

The march (#Frauenmarsch), organised by Leyla Bilge of the '120 dezibel' campaign, was attended by around a thousand women voicing their concerns over Angela Merkel's open-door immigration policies.

It's widely acknowledged that the tumultuous influx of African and Arab migrants from 2015 onward unleashed a disturbing wave of sexual violence across Germany.

In fact, sexual offences committed by migrants increased by 500% between 2013 and 2016.

Yet evidently, this was not the right kind of feminism in the eyes of the rabid Antifa counter-demonstrators, who crawled out from under their rocks to disrupt this otherwise peaceful protest. And despite their charge that the police are, and I quote, 'fascist pigs', Antifa were all too happy to enlist their services in shutting down what the media has pejoratively termed an 'AfD-march'.

Comment: Odd alliance between police and Antifa. Shutdown shows the relegation of women's issues as not important or are they quashing yet another migrant protest? Or both.

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Militants shell the Damascus-East Ghouta corridor near refugee's Wafedeen Camp

Sputnik
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:06 UTC

"On Friday, they fired 36 mortar shells at the humanitarian corridor, about 20 on Saturday, they were also firing mortar shells today," a Syrian army officer told Sputnik, adding that Syrian soldiers were ready to provide aid to all civilians willing to escape the territory seized by militants.

"But militants are not letting them leave, humanitarian convoys cannot pass either. People are actually being used as a human shield," the officer stressed.

On Saturday, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2401 that urges all parties to the conflict to immediately stop all clashes and adhere to a long-term humanitarian pause on the entire territory of Syria in order to ensure the safe and unhindered humanitarian aid supplies as well as medical evacuation of those injured.

Russian President on Saturday discussed the situation in East Ghouta by phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, expressing satisfaction with the adoption of the resolution. However, Putin noted that anti-terror efforts in East Ghouta will continue.

The humanitarian situation in the suburb east of the Syrian capital, has drastically deteriorated since February 18, when Syrian government forces launched an operation codenamed Damascus Steel, in a bid to clear the region of militants. According to the Russian military, the terrorist groups in the region are purposely struggling to escalate the situation in East Ghouta, preventing civilians from leaving the area and provoking retaliatory fights against the Syrian government.

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Society's Child

California: Judge approves shutdown of large homeless camp, wants to put residents in motels

Governor of Florida announces raising the age of eligibility for purchasing a rifle

Florida shooting survivor's father says CNN insinuated that they wanted to "espouse a certain narrative"

Israel now blames 'pilot error' for F-16 crash in Syria operation

Suspicious incident: Palestinian fisherman killed off Gaza coast by Israeli forces

100% legal: Cops confiscate firearms, sell them to make a profit

Public cost of Obama library estimated $175M

Tory MP forced to grovel an apology to Jeremy Corbyn over false spy claim

Berlin: Antifa and police shut down women's march

Militants shell the Damascus-East Ghouta corridor near refugee's Wafedeen Camp

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