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Department of Education slammed for sex assault definition change promoting due process


RT
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:46 UTC
consent sign
© Reuters / Brendan McDermid
US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed new rules on how schools respond to sexual harassment, prompting outcry from activists claiming that this would gut Title IX protections for victims.

The new rules define sexual harassment under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs, and set out due process protections, the Department of Education announced on Friday.

"Every survivor of sexual violence must be taken seriously, and every student accused of sexual misconduct must know that guilt is not predetermined," DeVos said in the announcement. "We can, and must, condemn sexual violence and punish those who perpetrate it, while ensuring a fair grievance process. Those are not mutually exclusive ideas. They are the very essence of how Americans understand justice to function."

The proposed changes will be open to public comments for 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, but the backlash has already started on social media, where it was denounced by former Obama adviser Valerie Jarett, the Human Rights Campaign, and even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Comment: Translation of the critics' responses: "It is fair to assume everyone accused of sexual misconduct is guilty. It is immoral to consider that they may be innocent."

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Jordan Peterson: In Amsterdam, pressure to add 'an extra guest' to my campus gig

Jordan B. Peterson
National Post
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:33 UTC
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My Dutch publisher made arrangements for me to be publicly interviewed at the University of Amsterdam in front of an estimated audience of 300 students. I am somewhat loath to appear at such events, having developed the same feelings about them as comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Carlos Mencia. They have all decided that it's not worth it: the risk to reward ratio is just too high.

I've had highly stressful experiences at the University of Toronto, McMaster and Queen's in the recent past, when I was confronted by mobs of misbehaving activists, agitated by their idiot professors, blaring air horns at distances close enough to cause damage, chanting slogans which were the opposite of well-crafted and poetic, and parading their ill-informed virtue on full display despite knowledge about the issues at hand that bordered on non-existent. At Queen's, most infamously, about 150 protestors surrounded the building in which I was speaking - a rather church-like edifice. Dozens of them climbed onto the sills of the ten-foot stained glass windows that lined the outer walls and pounded continuously on them for the full 90 minutes of the talk. One protestor, later arrested with a garrotte, performed her services with enough force to break a window and smear it with blood. Outside, the self-styled heroes of the new revolution barricaded the exterior doors - a crime, by the way - and humorously suggested that burning the building down, with all the attendees and speakers inside, might constitute an acceptable way to proceed.
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Argentine military confirms ARA San Juan submarine, missing for 1 year, found deep in Atlantic


Source
Sat, 17 Nov 2018 16:01 UTC
San Juan submarine
© Agence France-Presse / Alejandro MoritzARA San Juan, photo taken in 2014
The submarine ARA San Juan that vanished in the Atlantic over a year ago with 44 sailors on board has finally been detected at a depth of 800 meters, the Argentine military has confirmed.

The ARA San Juan was discovered by Ocean Infinity, an American company contracted by the Argentine military to lead the search effort. The company's vessel, Seabed Constructor, "has positively identified" the missing submarine lying at a chilling depth of 800 meters, the Argentine Navy confirmed in a tweet on Saturday morning.

Previously, the navy said the Seabed Constructor detected what it said was "a point of interest." The object was approximately 60 meters long and its shape resembled a submarine hull.

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Officer emerges unscathed as motorist wildly opens fire during traffic stop


RT
Sat, 17 Nov 2018 16:02 UTC
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© Washington County Sheriff's OfficeThe gunman left numerous bullet holes in the officer’s vehicle.
Arkansas police have released footage of the moment one of their officers cheated death when a motorist opened fire without warning during a routine traffic stop.

Suspect Luis Cobos Cenobio allegedly opened fire with a handgun on Washington County Cpl. Brett Thompson after the police officer pulled him over for a traffic violation.

Footage of the near fatal shootout has now been released by Washington County Police, showing how the gunman suddenly opened fire with a barrage of bullets, puncturing several holes in the cop's car.
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Serena Williams claims not to remember confrontation with US Open umpire


RT
Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:49 UTC
Serena Williams
© Global Look Press/AFP7Serena Williams
US tennis star Serena Williams says she doesn't "really remember" the verbal confrontation with umpire Carlos Ramos during her controversial US Open final defeat in September.

The 23-time Grand Slam winner was embroiled in huge controversy following her outburst in the match, which she lost to Japan's Naomi Osaka.

Williams accused the umpire of discrimination and branded him "a liar," "a thief" and "sexist," after he gave her a code violation for receiving coaching.

In a feature for GQ magazine which named her the Woman of the Year, the 37-year-old revealed she doesn't remember exactly how things panned out during the altercation with Ramos.

Comment: With the help of the internet, we remember:

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'It robs your life': Doctors mistakenly removes woman's 2 healthy kidneys


RT
Sat, 17 Nov 2018 11:34 UTC
Surgery
© Reuters / Keith BedfordDoctors removed both of Linda Woolley's kidneys.
A Colorado hospital is accused of mistakenly removing the kidneys of a woman who turned out to be perfectly healthy. She is now dependent on dialysis and faces a seven-year wait for a transplant.

Doctors at the University of Colorado Hospital told Linda Woolley she had to get her kidneys removed because pathology tests suggested she likely had kidney cancer. The 72-year-old had the operation in May.

However, a biopsy from March seen by KDVR shows "no evidence of malignancy" and says the results are "consistent with a benign process," KDVR reports.

Another biopsy was taken after the organs had been removed, and it showed "no evidence of carcinoma" and that there was "no mass lesion" found.
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Artificial intelligence could contribute $16 trillion to global GDP by 2030


RT
Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:25 UTC
AI robot
© Sputnik / Evgenya Novozhenina
The contribution of artificial intelligence (AI) to the global GDP will increase 16-fold in the next 12 years, according to the head of Russia's largest bank Sberbank Herman Gref.

"Expansion of artificial Intelligence in the coming years is likely to only grow. According to forecasts of a number of companies, if today AI contributes $1 trillion to global GDP, then according to forecasts of consulting companies, this figure will increase 16-fold over the next 12 years, until 2030," he said.

The number of specialists in demand in the area will also increase significantly, he added, explaining that in 10 years the need will reach ten million people.
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One dead, dozens injured as hundreds of thousands begin spontaneous protests across France against rising taxes


RT
Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:09 UTC
Fuel price protests in France
© REUTERS / Eric Gaillard
At least one person has died and almost 50 others have been injured as around 124,000 people protested against soaring fuel prices throughout France. Police used tear gas to stop demonstrators on the Champs-Elysees.


Comment: That figure is now estimated to be around 283,000 people. And this is just Day 1 of the protests...


Starting from the early hours of Saturday, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of French cities to express their discontent with the policies of President Emmanuel Macron and the French government's recent decision to raise fuel prices through additional taxes. Protesters blocked roads across France, disrupting traffic in many areas as well as blocking access to gas stations.


Comment: More specifically, they're protesting tax hikes for tobacco, gas and road tolls.


Comment: More reporting from one of the Paris rallies by RT:



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'I know I'm not getting asylum': Caravan migrants admit they're just looking for jobs

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:20 UTC
migrant caravan
© AP
Central American migrants with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 members are admitting once again that they are not asylum-seekers, but rather economic migrants looking for jobs in the United States.

In interviews with the New York Times and the Guardian, caravan migrants admit that they are not eligible for asylum in the U.S. - despite establishment media reports that the Central Americans are asylum-seekers.

From the New York Times:
Olvin Joel Lobo Reyes, 21, who said he left Honduras because of poverty and was seeking a job in the United States, arrived on Tuesday among a group of about 350 caravan migrants. He spent the night in a small shelter in downtown Tijuana that had no running water, and was planning to try his luck on Wednesday in Playas, a borough in western Tijuana. [Emphasis added]

As for achieving his goal of getting a job in the United States, he had not figured out how he was going to do that. He was planning to wait for the bulk of the caravan to arrive because his understanding was that the group would march to the border en masse "and see what Trump says." [Emphasis added]
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Violence erupts as Tijuana residents confront migrant caravan members

Rebecca Plevin
Palm Springs Desert Sun
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:04 UTC
Tijuana protestors
© Omar Ornelas,The Desert Sun-USA TODAY NETWORKMexican residents of Playas De Tijuana confronted Honduran migrants who had set up a makeshift camp at "Friendship Park" in Playas De Tijuana.
Hundreds of people who arrived in Tijuana with the first wave of the migrant caravan planned to spend Wednesday night in a makeshift camp by the Pacific Ocean, steps from the tall border fence that separates Mexico and the United States. But those plans shifted in the evening, after local and state officials opened a temporary shelter - and about 300 local residents gathered by the encampment to demand the migrants leave the upscale Playas de Tijuana neighborhood and go to the facility.

During a confrontation that lasted more than three hours, area residents sang the Mexican national anthem and waved Mexican flags. They chanted "Mexico! Mexico!" each time a bus transporting migrants left the beach for the temporary shelter. Mostly women and children went to the shelters, while young men from the caravan said they were determined to stay together at the beach and await the estimated 2,000 more caravan members on their way to Tijuana.

Pushing, shoving, kicking and a couple of blows broke out between masses of residents and migrants, illuminated by the crescent moon and mobile light towers, set up by authorities on the beach on the U.S. side of the border. More than three dozen municipal and federal police watched, separating people and trying to prevent the situation from devolving into fistfights and chaos.

Comment: See also: Growing migrant crowd tests US-Mexico border fortifications

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