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One killed, over 30 injured in grenade blast in Jammu, India

Karuna Madan
Gulf News
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:36 UTC
grenade blast at bus station in Jammu
© AFPIndian police inspect the site of a grenade blast at a bus station in Jammu.
Days after the deadly terror attack in Kashmir's Pulwama, at least one person was killed and over 30 injured in a grenade blast that rocked a crowded bus stand in Jammu on Thursday.

All the injured were rushed to Jammu's Government Medical College Hospital. Five of them are critical.

The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police informed media that Mohammad Sharik, 17, a resident of Uttarakhand's Haridwar died due to splinter injuries in the chest.

"The blast occurred at around 12 noon. So far over 30 persons have been brought with splinter injuries," Sunanda Raina, Principal, Government Medical College Hospital, informed media.
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Sherlock

US Census Bureau seeks data on legal status of millions of immigrants ahead of court case

Garance Burke
AP
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:00 UTC
Elizabeth OuYang
© AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, FileFILE - In this Nov. 27, 2018, file photo, Elizabeth OuYang, coordinator of New York Counts 2020, speaks during a news conference outside the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse. Several lawsuits across the country have been filed challenging the citizenship question on the 2020 census. As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether the Trump administration can ask people if they are citizens on the upcoming Census, the Census Bureau is quietly seeking comprehensive information about the legal status of millions of immigrants.
As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether the Trump administration can ask people if they are citizens on the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau is quietly seeking comprehensive information about the legal status of millions of immigrants.

Under a proposed plan, the Department of Homeland Security would provide the Census Bureau with a broad swath of personal data about noncitizens, including their immigration status, The Associated Press has learned. A pending agreement between the agencies has been in the works since at least January, the same month a federal judge in New York blocked the administration from adding the citizenship question to the 10-year survey.

On Wednesday, a federal judge in California also declared that adding the citizenship question to the Census was unconstitutional, saying the move "threatens the very foundation of our democratic system."


Comment: This is an odd statement, because one would think that a democracy is made up of the legitimate citizens of a country.


Comment: The issue of mass migration poses a serious threat to democracy both in the US and the EU, and so it's not only the Trump administration which is seeking to know just how vast this problem is or how it plans to stop it: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Info

'It looked like the creature from Alien': Angler describes catching prehistoric fish

Naaman Zhou
The Guardian
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:48 UTC
Australian fish worm goby
© Andrew RoseThe rare native Australian fish known as a ‘worm goby’ was caught in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory
An Australian fisherman, who captured a rare, unsettling fish that resembled a creature from the sci-fi film Alien, says it was "not all that exciting" and he caught it with a beer in his hand.

Andrew Rose was fishing in the Northern Territory's Kakadu national park when he snagged a 15cm-long worm goby - a rare, mud-dwelling fish with no eyes, a bony head and sharp teeth.

"It looked prehistoric," Rose told Guardian Australia. "It looked like something you see in the movies. The lure wasn't swimming right, I pulled it and it had this strange looking fish on it. We didn't know what it was. We took photos, took him off the hook and put him back in the water."
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Arrow Down

Baltimore officers indicted for deliberately running man over, then planting gun on him

Karma Allen
ABC News
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:46 UTC
Baltimore City Police Department
© Raymond Boyd/Getty Images, FILEThe doors to a Baltimore City Police Department Substation are pictured on April 9, 2015 in Baltimore.
A retired Baltimore police sergeant was indicted for allegedly planting a pellet gun on a suspect after another officer intentionally ran him over, prosecutors said.

Former Baltimore Police Department Sgt. Keith Gladstone pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights and witness tampering charges on Tuesday in connection with a 2014 incident that involved members of a corrupt police task, according to an indictment.

Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison suspended three unnamed officers in the wake of the indictment and said they would be investigated by the department's Internal Affairs unit.
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Brick Wall

US company offers to build 234 miles of border wall for $1.4 billion

Anna Giaritelli
Washington Examiner
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:46 UTC
border patrol wall
© MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty ImagesBorder Patrol officers keep watch before U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen inaugurates the first completed section of President Trumps 30-foot border wall in the El Centro Sector, at the U.S. Mexico border in Calexico, California on October 26, 2018.
A U.S. company is offering to build 234 miles of President Trump's border wall for just $1.4 billion, a fraction of the $8 billion the Trump administration is hoping to use for that project.

Fisher Sand and Gravel Company's President and CEO Tommy Fisher said the government is overpaying and that for $4.31 billion, he can build the wall and incorporate paved roads and border technology plus warranty.

"Our whole point is to break through the government bureaucracy," Fisher told the Washington Examiner. "If they do the small procurements as they are now ... that's not going to cut it."
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Eye 1

American woman divorced from Saudi husband trapped in Saudi Arabia

Ben Hubbard
New York Times
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:00 UTC
Saudi women
© Tomas Munita for The New York TimesEvery Saudi woman has a male “guardian” whose permission she needs to obtain a passport, travel or pursue certain medical procedures.
At first, Saudi Arabia was an adventure for Bethany Vierra.

An American from Washington State, she taught at a women's university, started a company, married a Saudi businessman and gave birth to a curly-haired daughter, Zaina.

But since the marriage went sour and she sought a divorce, she has been trapped. Because of the kingdom's so-called guardianship laws, which give men great power over women, she is unable to use her bank account, leave the country, travel with her daughter or seek legal help, according to her cousin, Nicole Carroll.

"She is completely stuck," Ms. Carroll, 37, said by phone from Dublin, Calif. "She is out of options."

Ms. Vierra, 31, is now divorced, but her ex-husband let her residency expire, meaning she has lost access to her bank account and cannot get authorization to leave the country, Ms. Carroll said. Their 4-year-old daughter cannot travel without her father's permission, meaning that even if Ms. Vierra finds a way to leave the kingdom, her child may have to stay behind.

Comment: The injustices suffered by Saudi women can't have been a surprise for Ms Vierra, but perhaps were the US not so beholden to Saudi Arabia they may attempt to do more on her behalf. And let this be yet another lesson for those entering into any kind of relations with Saudi Arabia, even traveling for a holiday, that the country is a law unto itself: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: West Discovers Saudi Arabia Has Human Rights Issues & The Real Reason People Hate Trump

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Stock Down

Government debt bad, private sector worse and could trigger the next financial crisis

Stefan Gleason
Activist Post
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:29 UTC
debt prison
© The Anti-Media
The $22 trillion official national debt is a much discussed problem, even as politicians exhibit zero motivation to do anything about it. But as big an economic overhang as it is, government debt isn't likely to trigger the next financial crisis.

Yes, servicing the growing federal debt bubble will depress GDP growth, cause the value of the dollar to drop, and raise inflation risks. But the bubble itself won't necessarily burst - not anytime soon.

As long as politicians face no political consequences for deficit spending, and as long as the Federal Reserve keeps the Treasury bond market propped up... then many more trillions can be added to the national debt.

Meanwhile, more fragile debt bubbles exist in the private sector. Unlike government debt - which carries the implicit backing of the Fed's unlimited printing press - debts incurred by corporations, investors, consumers, and students can default.

Comment: See also:

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Family

Canada: Insane judge rules that a parent dissuading children from transgender "treatments" is considered "family violence"

Jonathon Van Maren
The Bridgehead
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:49 UTC
parents with child
The day is rapidly approaching here in Canada when the transgender ideology will entirely trump the rights of parents. We're seeing that with the sex education curriculums in schools, we're seeing that in several provinces in regard to parents being able to seek therapy that helps their children become comfortable in their own bodies if they suffer from gender dysphoria, and now a truly terrifying judgement has been passed down from British Columbia's top court. From Parents As First Educators (PAFE):

Comment: The day that transgender ideology takes precedence over parents' rights has already arrived. Indeed scary, and dangerous. When law is determined on the basis of ideology, without fact or rational discourse, we can say hello totalitarianism, goodbye freedom. See also:

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Eye 1

'Whiteness studies' professor tells students white people 'dangerous' if they don't see race

Diana Soriano
The College Fix
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:21 UTC
Robin DiAngelo
During a guest lecture at Boston University on Monday, University of Washington Professor Robin DiAngelo told the audience a "dangerous white person" sees people as individuals rather than by skin color.

DiAngelo, whose main field of work is "whiteness studies," added that those who say they were taught to treat everyone the same deny black people of their reality, she said.

In making the claim, DiAngelo said she was lifting the terminology from her frequent co-facilitator at speaking engagements, black scholar Erin Trent Johnson.

DiAngelo's comments were couched during a section of her talk titled "What Does It Mean To Be White" that discussed colorblindness and those who say "I was taught to treat everyone the same, or some version of that."

"If you are being honest, you've probably said it," she told the audience, then added that in reality no one in the room was taught to treat everyone the same. "Your parents could lecture you to do it [but] you don't do it, you can't do it, there is no human objectivity."

Comment: Thanks to years of radical left feminist indoctrination, we get people like to DiAngelo spreading their pathological ideology to young impressionable students at what is supposed to be 'higher education'.

See also: The university as a center for authoritarian indoctrination: How Ed Schools became a menace to higher education

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NPC

Ridiculous! School comes under heavy liberal criticism for including characters dressed in KKK garb for performance of play

Shelly Conlon
Argus Leader
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:40 UTC
The Foreigner.
© Roosvelt Drama Facebook pageRoosevelt High School's Facebook page announces its production of "The Foreigner." The play sparked controversy over the weekend after a local nonprofit said a scene of student actors dressed in KKK attire only contributed to racial tension and community divide in today's political climate.
The Sioux Falls School District is apologizing to the public Tuesday after a weekend performance of "The Foreigner" at Roosevelt High School was found to be culturally insensitive, officials said.

The play featured a scene of student actors dressed in Ku Klux Klan attire. Officials said the district didn't follow the proper vetting guidelines for the production, following concerns raised by local community organization Establishing Sustainable Connections.

"The district has guidelines in place for vetting plays and other such works. The district failed to follow those guidelines," the district released in a statement. "We sincerely regret this and will continue to take action in our quest to be a culturally responsive school community."

The play, first produced in 1983, depicts the farcical story about a shy Englishman visiting a lodge in rural Georgia. During his visit, the man pretends he can't speak a word of English and ends up overhearing all sorts of secrets involving the lodge and its visitors.

Comment: At least a few people are getting out there and calling this reaction out for what it is:







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