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Hong Kong protesters make rest of the world look bad with 2am rubbish clean up


RT
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:11 UTC
hong kong protesters
© Reuters / Tyrone Siu
Demonstrators demand Hong Kong's leaders to step down and withdraw the extradition bill, in Hong Kong, June 16, 2019
Hong Kong protesters showed up the rest of the world's demonstrators when, after a 2 million-strong march, they worked through the night to ensure not a scrap of trash was left in their wake.

The mass protests against an unpopular China extradition bill took place on June 16 and, after the 3km march was over, the diligent demonstrators worked into the night to ensure the streets they had marched on were not left strewn with litter.

Images circulated on social media showed young people working to pick up rubbish late at night, with a few doing a final sweep of the area the next morning.


This isn't the first time Hong Kong protesters turned litter collectors after a march. Following the June 12 protests, demonstrators returned to the protest site to clean up after themselves.


The hardworking Hongkongers made a lot of other protesters look bad in comparison. When thousands of protesters gathered in London to show their opposition to President Donald Trump at the start of June, they left a trail of rubbish in their wake and were accused of hypocrisy for demonstrating against Trump's climate policy while littering themselves.

Occupy ICE protesters in Portland sparked anger when they left their protest site looking like a scrap heap in 2018. Even the Dakota Pipeline protesters left millions of pounds of garbage behind when they were evicted from their demonstration site in 2017.



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You want 'em..you got 'em: New Mexico sanctuary city sues Trump admin for releasing too many immigrants into its borders

Holly Matkin
BlueLivesMatter
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham

In February, Grisham scoffed at the predicted influx of immigrants at the state’s southern border, calling the matter a “charade,” and withdrew National Guard troops from border locations.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the federal lawsuit on Monday.

Albuquerque, NM - The State of New Mexico and the sanctuary city of Albuquerque have filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for releasing too many immigrants into the state's border cities.

The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico on Monday, alleged that President Trump's administration has enacted an "indiscriminate practice of releasing migrants in communities," in violation of the federal "safe release" policy, KVIA reported.

The federal "safe release" policy was canceled in October of 2018 due to the massive wave of immigrants who flooded over the U.S. southern border from Central America.

That policy provided those seeking asylum with assistance in getting to their final destinations while they were waiting for their claims to be processed, KVIA reported.

"[The] sudden and unlawful abandonment of this policy was done without notice or opportunity for input by affected jurisdictions," the lawsuit alleged.

The sanctuary city and the State of New Mexico has also demanded to be reimbursed for the funds it has shelled out to temporarily shelter immigrants.

Comment: Judging from the majority of the comments to the above article, there isn't much sympathy for New Mexico's complaint.

Trump offers sanctuary cities an "unlimited supply" of illegal immigrants

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Billionaires are investing in immortality


Outer Places
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:16 UTC
Quest for immortality
© Pixabay

Press release/guest article

While we all know that billionaires control a substantial amount of the world's wealth - in fact, current projections see the richest 1% controlling 2/3 of it by 2030. But, did you know that when they aren't investing in space shuttles, underground Hyperloops and sprawling tech campuses, the super-rich are looking at a range of mind-blowing methods to increase their lifespan?

Commercial Finance Experts, ABC Finance have been digging into some of the strangest and most extravagant approaches billionaires have turned to in their quest for immortality (or at least get a few more years in than the rest of us).
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Mexican feds team up with DEA to raid industrial-scale fentanyl lab in border state

Cartel Chronicles
Breitbart
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:22 UTC
Mexican meth factory raid
© Mexico's FGR
Mexican federal authorities raided a large warehouse outfitted by cartel members to allegedly manufacture industrial quantities of fentanyl in closer proximity to Texas.

The raid was announced on Sunday afternoon by Mexico's Attorney General's Office (FGR). The operation was coordinated with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Following an investigation, federal authorities obtained a search warrant from a judge in Nuevo Leon and raided a warehouse in the Ciudad Mitras Industrial Park and a home in the Pedregal La Silla neighborhood.

During the warehouse raid, authorities found a full-scale production laboratory and series of notebooks with formulas allegedly describing the manufacture of fentanyl. Police arrested a chemist identified as Guadalupe "A" on drug production charges.

The fentanyl laboratory is the first of its kind in Nuevo Leon. Authorities have not revealed which criminal organization they believe is linked to the plant.
Editor's Note: Breitbart News traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas' Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Tony Aranda from Nuevo Leon.
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Texas governor signs bill making sex jokes on campus a criminal offense

Greg Piper
The Collega Fix
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:17 UTC
Greg Abbott Texas
Greg Abbott issued broad protections for campus speech a week ago. A few days later, he rendered those new protections meaningless.

Ignoring warnings from a civil-liberties groupand yours truly, the Republican governor signed provisions into Texas law that use criminal law to enforce the Obama administration's unconstitutional definition of campus sexual harassment.

Their practical effect will be scaring faculty and other university employees into reporting any "sex-based" conduct or speech that may be "unwelcome" to someone at their campus. That includes overheard sex jokes.

SB 212 threatens termination and up to six months in jail for any campus employee who "witnesses or receives information" - that means hearsay - that may count as sexual harassment under this exceedingly broad definition, and fails to report it to the Title IX apparatus.
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Bad Guys

Indian Army soldier killed in battle with Pakistan based terrorists

Nazir Masoodi
NDTV
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:05 UTC
Anantnag soldiers
An Army soldier was killed in a gunbattle with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag today. Two terrorists were also shot dead in the encounter - one of them has been identified as Sajjad Maqbool Bhat, who arranged the explosive-laden vehicle used in the suicide bombing of a CRPF convoy in Pulwama in February, and the other was Tawseef Bhat, the handler of the suicide bomber, sources said.

The police said one more terrorist is believed to be still hiding inside a building in the area. All of them are terrorists of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), whose chief Masood Azhar is wanted by India.

The security forces launched a search operation based on intelligence inputs that some terrorists could be in the area. The operation soon turned into an encounter after the terrorists opened fired at the forces.
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Normal, healthy six-year-old girl upset after being subjected to gender theory video in school: Ontario family files human rights complaint

Barbara Kay
The Post Millennial
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:36 UTC
scared child gender studies
© geralt/Pixabay
The following story has its source in an application filed before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario by Jason and Pamela Buffone, on behalf of their daughter "N," against the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for discrimination on the basis of gender and gender identity in contravention of the Human Rights Code.

In January of 2018, in a Grade One class at Devonshire Community Public School, part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board network, six-year-old N watched a YouTube video as part of her teacher's lesson plan on gender.

N is the kind of child, her mother Pamela told me in a telephone interview, that adores school - or did until the particular morning that prompted this column. The video was entitled, "He, She and They?!? - Gender: Queer Kid Stuff #2." The video contained statements such as, "some people aren't boys or girls," and that there are people who do not "feel like a 'she' or a 'he,'" and therefore might not have a gender. The young teacher, whom I will refer to by her initials, JB, continued to teach gender theory throughout the semester. According to N's feedback to her mother, JB told the children that "there is no such thing as girls and boys," and "girls are not real and boys are not real."

Comment: The effects of corruption in the training of educators are now coming home to roost. The teacher was obviously steeped the in 'progressive' ideologies that have infested the university system for nearly two decades. The damage to young minds will become obvious down the road.

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'Fascist and tyrannical' or cultural preservation? Quebec passes controversial religious ban


RT
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:46 UTC
quebec bill 21
© Reuters/Christinne Muschi
Lawmakers in the Canadian province of Quebec have adopted a law banning public service employees from wearing religious symbols. Critics and advocates both see it as an attempt of the Francophone region to preserve its identity.

Bill 21 (Loi 21) was passed by a vote of 73-35 in the National Assembly on Sunday. It bars civil servants "in positions of authority" - such as teachers, police, and government lawyers - from wearing religious symbols. This includes Christian crucifixes, Muslim headscarves, Sikh turbans and Jewish yarmulkes, for instance.

Muslim women wearing the full face veil (burqa) will be directly affected by the provision requiring people giving or receiving government services to uncover their faces, for purposes of security or confirming identity.

Lawmakers also approved Bill 9, which imposes new French language and values tests for prospective immigrants intended to "protect Quebec identity."
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Eye 1

Russian lawyer from Trump Tower meeting kicked off Twitter


RT
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:43 UTC
Natalia Veselnitskaya
© Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov
Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer whose 2016 meeting with Trump campaign members was a major point in 'Russiagate' conspiracy theory, has been suspended from Twitter for reasons unknown.

Veselnitskaya's account was greyed-out on Monday, with the only explanation given that Twitter suspends accounts that violate the rules. Which rules she might have broken was left unsaid.

Sputnik radio host Lee Stranahan seemed convinced Veselnitskaya was banned over her criticism of Bill Browder, an oligarch wanted for tax fraud in Russia and one of the leading advocates of anti-Russian sanctions in the West. The Magnitsky Act of 2012 was named after Browder's accountant.

On Friday, a pair of self-proclaimed (and anonymous) data scientists claimed they had discovered a "bot network" of accounts supporting Veselnitskaya on Twitter.
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Russia's Constitutional Court: Authorities can't ban protests by simply citing lack of security plan from organizers


RT
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:40 UTC
police and protesters
© Sputnik / Vladimir Astapkovich
Russia's Constitutional Court ruled that local authorities may not ban public events on erroneous security grounds. The ruling said it is their job to ensure safety by deploying police, medics, and firefighters as necessary.

The Russian law regulating public gatherings has come under criticism from opposition activists who say it's too restrictive and gives the authorities undue leeway to ban protests that it doesn't want to take place. The Tuesday ruling closed a loophole that could be used to deny permission for rallies and demonstrations.

The court was reviewing a complaint by a public activist whose applications for two public gatherings were rejected without consideration in 2018 by the city council of Irkutsk. The city said the organizer failed to explain how he intends to ensure the safety of the participants. The forms only listed the phone numbers of city services that could be called in case of emergency.
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