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Sacramento cops who fatally shot an unarmed black man will not face charges

Donald Thompson
WCTI 12
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 21:58 UTC
Stephon Clark protest
© AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, FileIn this Tuesday, March 27, 2018 file photo, Stevante Clark stands on a desk as he shouts the name of his brother Stephon Clark, who was fatally shot by police a week earlier, during a meeting of the Sacramento City Council in Sacramento, Calif.
The two Sacramento police officers whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man last year prompted nationwide protests will not face criminal charges, prosecutors announced Saturday.

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said Officers Terrance Mercadal and Jared Robinet used lethal force lawfully. The officers have said they thought Clark, a vandalism suspect, had a gun but investigators found only a cellphone.

"We must recognize that they are often forced to make split-second decisions and we must recognize that they are under tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving circumstances," Schubert said.

The city has been bracing for protests ahead of the decision, with business owners warned by a business association and state government workers told by legislative officials in recent days to stay away from downtown at least through the weekend.

Schubert said the decision not to file charges against the officers "does not diminish in any way the tragedy, the anger and the frustration that we heard since the time of his death."
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Super-honest Canadians leave cash and IOUs in an accidentally unlocked grocery store


CTV News
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:47 UTC
food basics
No looters in sight.
Presented with an unlocked and unstaffed supermarket, a group of Ontario shoppers chose to leave cash and IOUs instead of loot the grocery store last month.

Some of the downtown Kingston shoppers walked in, realized it wasn't meant to be open during the Family Day holiday on Feb. 18 and promptly exited. One elderly woman who left empty handed even wrote a note for the manager: she just needed flour and eggs to make a cake.

"My first thought was 'Oh no,'" said Food Basics District Manager Mark Woudwyk. Police arrived after a call about customers inside without employees, but Woudwyk never reported any stolen goods. "I realized to my delight that nobody took anything out of the store," said Woudwyk.

The incident left Kingston police impressed, said Const. Ash Gutheinz. "It's rare anywhere. We're pretty impressed with our citizens that they would be so honourable, honest, so as to leave a bunch of money for the groceries that they were taking," he said.
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Egypt's top cleric calls polygamy "injustice" for women


ABC
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 19:47 UTC
Ahmed al-Tayeb, Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar
© AP Photo/Amr Nabil, FileFILE - In this Aug. 8, 2011 file photo, Ahmed al-Tayeb, Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Egypt's top Muslim cleric, meets with Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed El Baradei, in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Tayeb has stirred up controversy after saying that polygamy is an "injustice" for women. His comments, aired Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, on state TV said "those who say that marriage must be polygamous are all wrong." He said polygamy is restricted in Islam and requires fairness.
Egypt's top Muslim cleric has stirred up controversy after saying that polygamy is an "injustice" for women, but stopped short of calling for a ban on the practice.

"Those who say that marriage must be polygamous are all wrong. We have to read the (Quranic) verse in full, said Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, Al-Azhar's Grand Imam.

He said that monogamy was the rule and polygamy a restricted exception. It is restricted in Islam and requires fairness and "if there is not fairness it is forbidden to have more than one wife," he said.

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Stock Down

Paris property prices hit all-time record & likely to rise even higher


RT
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 14:41 UTC
Eiffel Tower
© AFP / Ludovic MarinThe river Seine and the Eiffel Tower
The French capital's real estate market has become even more pricey in 2018 as the property costs reached another historic peak and are not going to go down, paving the way for another record this year.

Purchasing a place in the heart of the City of Light cost buyers 5.7 percent more in 2018 than a year before, according to the data released by the Chamber of Notaries of Greater Paris. Those who wanted to live in the city center had to spend €9,750 ($11,100) on the average per meter. As such, a small one bedroom apartment could be sold for more than $444,000.

More than $11,000 per meter is hardly the most expensive offering, as the price in Paris's Odeon Area was €17,410 ($19,800), having risen 28.3 percent.

Comment: From a lack of space, to foreign investment and property speculation, the reasons for soaring property prices vary but it's notable that most major cities in the West are experiencing property bubbles, and in turn citizens are suffering the exorbitant rents - often costing more than half of their salary: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Google sides with Saudi Arabia: Won't remove widely-criticized government app letting men track women and control their travel

Bill Bostock
Insider
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 18:26 UTC
saudi google app women tracker app
© Samantha Lee/Insider/NOS
Google has declined to remove from its app store a Saudi government app which lets men track women and control where they travel, on the grounds that it meets all their terms and conditions.

Google reviewed the app - called Absher - and concluded that it does not violate any agreements, and can therefore remain on the Google Play store.

The decision was communicated by Google to the office of Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who, with other members of Congress, wrote last week to demand they remove the service.

Google did not respond to a request for comment on the decision.
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They Live! Delusional transgender 'man' claims new 'agender alien' identity


RT
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 14:52 UTC
Alien
© Instagram / Jareth Nebula
Jareth Nebula was born a woman before transitioning into a man four years ago. The 33-year-old has now revealed that it doesn't belong to any gender, and is, in fact, an alien.

Nebula, who works as a barber's shop receptionist and a model, thought it had finally found itself when it became a man at age 29, The Mirror reports. However that feeling was fleeting and Nebula soon realized it wasn't male or female, or even human.

"I don't think or feel like humans. I can't really explain it to others - I'm simply otherworldly," Nebula said.

"I didn't feel comfortable as either gender or even anything in between. I know I'm stuck in a human form and that's how I'm perceived by others - but to me, I'm an alien with no gender."

Nebula, who doesn't mind being described as 'he' or 'she' but prefers 'it', first began to realize that it was unusual when it was diagnosed with a rare group of genetic connective tissue disorders called Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS).

Comment: It's the next 'logical' step in the formation of a 'breakaway civilization', we suppose.

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Bad Guys

180 illegal migrants arrested near Sunland Park, New Mexico


KVIA
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 17:17 UTC
180 illegal migrants arrested New Mexico
© US Customs and Border Protection
Federal border authorities say 180 migrants have been arrested for illegally crossing into the United States near a border community in southern New Mexico.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday the group crossed near Sunland Park early Tuesday, marking the latest wave of Central Americans to arrive in the state in recent months. Earlier this month, a total of 640 people crossed at two separate locations in less than 24 hours.

While more than two dozen large groups of 100 migrants or more have been apprehended in the region since Oct. 1, authorities say this marks the second large group encountered at Sunland Park.

Like the previous instances, the latest group included families and unaccompanied juveniles. Sunland Park medical technicians responded and treated some of the migrants while others were transported to a local hospital.
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Books

Entire Dr. Seuss book collection deemed racist by politically correct researchers

Sam Gillette
People
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:53 UTC
Dr. Seuss
© Gene Lester/Getty ImagesDr. Seuss
As Dr. Seuss' birthday approaches on March 2, a new study argues that many of the author's classic children's books are racist and problematic - and only two percent of his characters represent people of color.

"[This study reveals] how racism spans across the entire Seuss collection, while debunking myths about how books like Horton Hears a Who! and The Sneetches can be used to promote tolerance, anti-bias, or anti-racism," Katie Ishizuka and Ramón Stephens write in their February 2019 report, "The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, AntiBlackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss' s Children's Books," as part of St. Catherine University's Research on Diversity in Youth Literature.

They continue: "Findings from this study promote awareness of the racist narratives and images in Dr. Seuss' children's books and implications to the formation and reinforcement of racial biases in children."

The study continues by explaining that some of the most iconic characters relay the troubling messages of Orientalism (the representation of Asia and Asian people based on colonialist stereotypes), anti-blackness and white supremacy.

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Italian police seize Neapolitan mafia chief after 15 year manhunt


RT
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 10:37 UTC
Italy arrests mafia fugitive Marco Di Lauro
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Italian police arrested one of the country's most wanted fugitives after being on the run for almost 15 years. The criminal surrendered peacefully as he was at home with his partner and two cats preparing to eat pasta.

150 police officers came to a modest apartment in the southern city of Naples on Saturday to arrest the 38-year old Marco Di Lauro, one of the country's most prominent gangsters. The man was captured without a fight, as he had just finished a workout. He was with his partner Cira and two cats, apparently preparing for dinner as a freshly-cooked plate of pasta was standing on the table, according to local media.

The high-profile police intervention was warmly welcomed by the locals as dozens of people gathered outside the building to watch the famous mobster being seized. Footage posted online shows the crowd chanting "Well done" as Di Lauro was brought into the police car.

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Former British swimmer states the obvious: Transgender athletes should not compete in women's sports


BBC
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
Transgender women's sport, transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon
Transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon (centre) pictured with Jen Wagner-Assali (right), who called her victory "unfair"
Transgender athletes should not compete in female competitions in order to "protect women's sport", says former British swimmer Sharron Davies.

Her comments come after 18-time tennis Grand Slam singles champion Martina Navratilova said it was "cheating" to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport because they had unfair physical advantages.

One campaign group said Navratilova's comments were "transphobic".

Speaking to BBC Sport, Davies, 56, said she had spoken to many other female athletes who "feel the same way".

"It is not a transphobic thing - I really want to say we have no issue with people who are transgender," she said.

"Every single woman athlete I've spoken to, and I have spoken to many, all of my friends in international sports, understand and feel the same way as me.

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