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Water

Border aid volunteers who left food and water for migrants sentenced to probation, fines

Rafael Carranza
USA Today
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:46 UTC
Migrants in AZ
© Nick Oza The Arizona Republic - USA TODAY NETWORKJune 23, 2017. Ajo, Arizona, USA; Humanitarian group, No More Deaths, volunteers search for the remains of migrants who died in remote rugged terrain after crossing the U.S. border illegally in triple-digit temperatures through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Ajo, Arizona.
A federal judge in Tucson on Friday sentenced four humanitarian-aid volunteers for dropping off water and food intended for migrants crossing through a deadly, protected wilderness desert area in southern Arizona.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernando Velasco sentenced Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick to 15 months of unsupervised probation. They will also have to pay fines totaling $250 each.

On Jan. 18, Velasco found the four women guilty on two charges for entering the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge without a proper permit and abandonment of property for dropping off 1-gallon jugs of water and cans of beans for migrants.

Both are Class "B" misdemeanors.

Hoffman also was convicted for operating a motor vehicle inside the refuge, located south of Ajo. The charges stemmed from an Aug. 13, 2017, encounter with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer as the four women volunteered with the humanitarian-aid group No More Deaths.
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Attention

Spanish conservative organization launches bus campaign against radical feminism


El País
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:08 UTC
Spanish Hazte Oír bus campaign feminism
© Europa PressThe bus calls for the repeal of gender violence laws.
Spanish ultraconservative Catholic organization Hazte Oír (Make Yourself Heard) has launched a bus campaign against "feminazis" and what it considers "radical feminism."

The campaign calls on Spain's conservative political leaders - Pablo Casado from the Popular Party (PP), Albert Rivera from Ciudadanos (Citizens) and Santiago Abascal from the far-right party Vox - to repeal the 2004 gender violence law and legal protections granted by Spanish regions to the LGBTQI community.

The bus will travel through several Spanish cities until International Women's Day on March 8, when a women's strike and demonstration have been planned.

"It's not gender violence, it's domestic violence" is the main message plastered on the bus. "Gender laws discriminate against men. Casado, Rivera, Abascal: Repeal the gender laws," is written below.
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Family

Madness: Canadian court rules 14 y.o. girl can start testosterone injections without her parents' consent

Jeremiah Keenan
The Federalist
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:02 UTC
trans person
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ordered that a 14-year-old girl receive testosterone injections without parental consent. The court also declared that if either of her parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of family violence.

As previously reported, Maxine* was encouraged by her school counselor in BC's Delta School District to identify as a boy while in seventh grade. When Maxine was 13 years old, her doctor and his colleagues at BC Children's Hospital decided that Maxine should begin taking testosterone injections in order to develop a more masculine appearance.

Although Maxine's mother was ultimately willing to support hormone injections, her father Clark* was concerned about the permanent ramifications of cross-sex hormones. Suspecting that his daughter's mental health issues might be more the cause than the effect of her gender dysphoria, he ultimately decided that it would be better for her to wait until she was older before she embarked on any irreversible course of treatment.

Comment: How will the courts respond when society starts experiencing the fallout from their horrendous decisions that advocate abuse of children? Expect silence and denial.

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Life Preserver

Russia & Syria plan to evacuate refugees stranded in US-controlled Rukban camp


RT
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 10:36 UTC
rukban camp evacuation
© Russian Ministry of DefenseBuses accompanied by Russian miltiary policy heading to the Rukban refugee camp in the US-controlled zone of Syria
Russian military police will accompany the buses with refugees leaving the Rukban tent camp in the US-controlled zone in Syria, on their way to the areas administered by Damascus. The first buses departed for the camp on Friday.

Security for the refugees leaving the camp, mainly women and children, is being provided jointly by the Syrian armed forces and the Russian military, Sergey Solomatin, head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria, said on Friday.


Comment: Whether the US agrees to this latest plan to assist the refugees remains to be seen; it's clear by now Washington is more interested in safeguarding its terrorists than trapped innocent civilians.

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Broom

YouTube shuts down comments on videos with minors amid advertisers fleeing over 'child porn' scandal


RT
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:22 UTC
YouTube
© Global Look Press / dpa/ Raphael Knipping 166
YouTube has disabled comments under "tens of millions of videos" with children doing innocuous things such as yoga, after an investigation revealed the presence of preying pedophiles and sparked a mass exodus of advertisers.

In a blog post on Thursday, the video-sharing site said it had started closing down comment sections on videos featuring minors "that could be subject to predatory behavior." Such videos number in the "tens of millions," YouTube said, promising to expand the purge "over the next few months."

The Google-owned company said that only "a small number of creators will be able to keep the comments enabled on these types of videos."

The accounts that would be allowed to stay open to user feedback, will have to step up their moderating game and will be required "to demonstrate a low risk of predatory behavior." YouTube said that it would directly engage with creators of these high-risk videos.

Comment: See also: Child grooming on Istagram triples - targets are kids as young as five

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Bullseye

The paradox of reporting on #Metoo versus the many cases of extreme sexual abuse

Louise Perry
Quillette
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari
You probably already know - or think you know-what happened on the night of September 25, 2017 between Aziz Ansari and an anonymous woman calling herself "Grace." These are the accepted facts: she went on a date with Ansari, they went back to his house, and then had some sexual contact that left Grace feeling deeply uncomfortable. No crime was alleged, since Ansari did not force himself on Grace in any way, but this was clearly a nasty encounter for her. The next day, she texted Ansari telling him as much and he apologized for having "misread things." Several months later, she published her account on the website babe.

For a few weeks following the publication of Grace's story, the internet was awash with claims and counter-claims about the rights and wrongs of what had taken place. Every media outlet offered up its judgment on Ansari. To some commentators, he was the victim of a witch hunt, persecuted by an internet mob with no respect for due process. On the other side, many feminists argued that his behavior exemplified the aggressive, entitled, chauvinistic attitude that too many men show towards women. Others suggested that the reaction against Ansari was disproportionate - yes he had behaved badly, but that badly? Everyone had an opinion, not only on what he had done, but on what the incident revealed about sexual politics in the #MeToo era.

Comment: And all of this is to say nothing of the scourge of rampant pedophilia in Western society - and the severe lack of significant reporting by the "woke".

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Mail

Mail Cover Program: Yes, even the post office is spying on you

John Kiriakou
Consortium News
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:55 UTC
USPS truck
© Wikimedia Commons“We also spy on you.”
You may remember that last year some nut was arrested for mailing bombs to prominent Democrats, media outlets, and opponents of Donald Trump. Less than a week after the bombs went out, a suspect was arrested. Almost immediately, video turned up of him at a Trump rally, wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat and chanting for the camera. He was soon tried, convicted, and jailed. End of story.

But it wasn't the end of the story. The investigation into the bomb incidents focused attention on an almost unknown federal surveillance program-one that poses a direct threat to the privacy and constitutional rights of every American. It's called the "Mail Cover Program" and it's run by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Yes, even the Post Office is spying on us.

The Mail Cover Program allows postal employees to photograph and send to federal law enforcement organizations (FBI, DHS, Secret Service, etc.) the front and back of every piece of mail the Post Office processes. It also retains the information digitally and provides it to any government agency that wants it-without a warrant.
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Handcuffs

Man arrested in attack on conservative activist at UC Berkeley


CBS
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 06:10 UTC
Men fighting
A man being sought for the assault of a conservative activist on the University of California, Berkeley campus last month has been arrested.

A statement from UC Berkeley Public Affairs said a warrant was issued for suspect Zachary Greenberg and UC police arrested him Friday, booking him into jail at 1 p.m.

Greenberg was identified as one of two men who confronted a conservative activist who had set up a table in Sproul Plaza. Hayden Williams, volunteer with conservative group Turning Points USA was displaying signs that read, "Hate Crimes Hoaxes Hurt Real Victims" - a reference to the Jussie Smollett case - and another saying "This is MAGA Country."
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Dollars

NYC Mayor's wife can't account for $850million dollars of taxpayer's money for mental health project

Chris Pleasance
Daily Mail
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:44 UTC
Chirlane McCray
Chirlane McCray, wife of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, champions the ThriveNYC mental health program, but organizers cannot explain where its $850million budget has gone.
Bill de Blasio's wife Chirlane McCray cannot explain where $850million given to the mental health program she champions has gone, according to reports.

In the three years it has been running, organizers at ThriveNYC have largely failed to keep records of the initiative's achievements - and data that has been collected shows it lagging well behind targets.

Despite that, the program has been granted an even bigger budget going forward and is now on track to spend $1billion over five years.

The data comes from a Politico report that shows those running the scheme have largely failed to measure its impact or keep track of spending.

Thrive said it has developed a list of 417 metrics to measure how effective the program is moving forward, but asked to assess its impact so far, Politico said the data was piecemeal and showed a largely failing picture.
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Propaganda

King's College London 'study' slams RT for doing ... journalism


RT
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 11:12 UTC
Salisbury District
RT provided extensive coverage of the Skripal poisonings by exploring a number of theories, is critical of NATO, and writes stories about Western political dysfunction, a report from King's College London (KCL) has found.

The Policy Institute (TPI) at KCL published a range of hard-hitting findings under the title 'Weaponising news: RT, Sputnik and targeted disinformation.'

It's a piece of work which can stand proudly alongside the countless other reports which have reached the same conclusions using almost the same language.
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