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Good samaritan may face charges for rescuing animals during Hurricane Florence without a permit

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:47 UTC
Tammie Hedges
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Tammie Hedges, an animal rights activist, attempted to be proactive and protect animals as Hurricane Florence enveloped the NC coast and her home town. She and her group of friends began rescuing animals they found in danger of dying by the rising flood waters. Each animal's exact location was documented so the owners could be informed following the floods caused by Florence.

All the animals were then transported to a warehouse complete with cages, food, water, pee pads, and litter boxes. Volunteers even slept in the warehouse to make sure rising flood waters didn't threaten the rescue operation.

Some two dozen animals were rescued before Wayne County Animal Control demanded the animals be turned over to them. The officers who arrived to transport the animals to the state-approved animal shelter reportedly told Hedges she was running an illegal animal shelter without a permit. Hedges disputes such allegations and says she and her group were just trying to defend the animals' rights to life.

Hedges may now be facing criminal charges if the resulting investigation concludes she committed criminal acts. Frank Sauls, animal services manager for Wayne County, defended his county's actions saying:
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IRS could pull anti-Kavanaugh groups' non-profit status for clear violation of terms in disrupting hearings

Petr Svab
The Epoch Times
Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:19 UTC
kavanaugh hearing protesters
© Sarah Silbiger/CQ Roll Call via Associated PressA protester is removed by Capitol police during the hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building Tuesday Sept. 4, 2018.
Several groups that organized people to disrupt Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings could be at risk of being stripped of their tax-exempt status for violating Internal Revenue Service rules, based on a review of the agency's applicable rules.

The groups encouraged protesters to commit acts of civil disobedience by disrupting the hearings. The IRS prohibits giving tax-exempt status to organizations that plan or encourage illegal activities, which, in past practice, included civil disobedience.

Over 200 people were arrested during the four days of hearings, held Sept. 4 to 7, for disrupting the hearings. They were organized by Women's March and Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPDA), both holding 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status as social welfare organizations, as well as Housing Works, which holds the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status reserved for charitable organizations.

Comment: George Soros seems to be hedging his bets with a personal smear on Judge Kavanaugh as well as mob outcry.

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Man given a 'pass' after sexual assault; losing his government job was punishment enough

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:26 UTC
Justin Schneider
A former government employee was found guilty of offering a woman a ride and then assaulting her and leaving her body on the side of the road. But instead of being sentenced to prison, the man is being given a "pass."

Justin Schneider, 34, was indicted on four felony charges, which included kidnapping, assault, and offensive contact with fluids. He ultimately accepted a plea deal for the incident from August 2017, and his sentence is being criticized by many who believe he should be in prison right now.

Schneider assaulted a 25-year-old Native woman in the middle of the day after he saw her at a gas station, looking for a ride. He introduced himself as "Dan," and then said he needed to make a stop before her destination. He took the woman to a secluded destination and then "full on tackled" her, according to a report from KTVA.

In a criminal complaint, Anchorage Police Department Detective Brett Sarber said that when Schneider attacked the woman, he "immediately and violently grabbed her neck in a front choke hold with both hands and told her if she screamed, he'd kill her," and then he "kept squeezing her neck harder, and then told her that he was indeed going to kill her."
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Agents take 2,000 migrants into custody at single border crossing, drug cartels use distraction for shipments

Bob Price
Breitbart
Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Border Patrol agents
© File Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector apprehended more than 2,000 migrants during a three-day period at a tiny area known for illegal border crossing. The groups consisted mainly of migrant families and unaccompanied children from Central America.

McAllen Station agents are being inundated with migrant families and unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the border from Mexico. Once across the border, the migrants turn themselves in to the first Border Patrol agents they can find, according to information provided to Breitbart Texas from Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol officials.

"The continued flow of migrants turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents is creating an unsustainable situation," Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla, Jr. said in a written statement. "The transnational criminal organizations exploit family units and unaccompanied children populations and create diversions for agents, leaving areas along the Rio Grande vulnerable."

Comment: See also:

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Swedish populist party wins so many seats it's having trouble filling them

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 09:13 UTC
sweden democrats
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The populist Sweden Democrats won so many votes in the country's recent elections that they won more seats in local governments than they had candidates to fill them.

While it is not uncommon to see empty seats in municipal governments in Sweden at the end of an election cycle, it is rare to see empty seats after an election. The Sweden Democrats (SD) now find themselves in the position of having 22 empty seats across the country in 17 municipalities due to winning such a large share of votes, SVT reports.

One of the reasons the SD have so many empty seats to fill is that the party locked in a certain number of candidates prior to the election and won more seats than they anticipated.

"On a locked list, the party itself has set up its candidates within the stipulated time, and then you can not add any names," said Hans-Ivar Swärd, election officer at the Swedish election authority (Valmyndigheten).

The issue for the populist party, according to Swärd, is that they have an elected mandate but due to not having people to fill the seats, they cannot fulfil that mandate.

Comment: Populism is on the rise in Europe, and the establishment have no one to blame but themselves. Too many years of ignoring their own constituencies and instituting idiotic and destructive policies have justifiably turned the people against them.

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Buddhist teacher forced devotees into sex, spent donation money on lavish life

Melkorka Licea
New York Post
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:20 UTC
Sogyal Rinpoche
© Getty ImagesSogyal Rinpoche
A Dalai Lama wannabe was more like a gross Svengali, according to a damning new report.

Once one of the world's most respected Buddhist teachers, Sogyal Rinpoche forced his devotees to have sex with him and wipe his butt, an international Buddhist organization named Rigpa found in an investigation.

Rinpoche, who sold more than 3 million copies of his tome, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," subjected some of his inner circle "to serious physical, sexual and emotional abuse," The Sun reported.

The English government is also investigating the claims about Rinpoche's "harem," which he dubbed his "Dakinis."

"Sogyal and the girls thought everything that went into him and came out of him was holy," one accuser said in the report. "So the girls wiped his a- for him. He liked to have work gatherings while he took a s-t with the door open," she said. "He also chewed his food then exchanged it with a kiss to the girls.

Comment: The predation on innocent people within a religion isn't just confined to Catholicism. Religion in general is the perfect playground for psychopaths to use their power to abuse the trust people place in them, destroying lives in the process. See also:

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USA

Number of illegal aliens in America estimated to be at 22 million

Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 17:04 UTC
illegal immigrants aliens arizone
There has remained considerable debate over the number of illegal immigrants in the country - a figure that obviously has great import in our ongoing debate over immigration policy. Now, Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have completed a study that that doubles the prior estimate of 11 million. That figure was used to argue for the passage of amnesty legislation. However, the study finds that the actual number is roughly 22 million.

In a video statement,Jonathan Feinstein, an economics professor at Yale states
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My face-to-face encounter with Palestinian nonviolent resistance

Jane Eisner
Forward
Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Palestinian walk protest
© Activestills.orgPalestinian nonviolent resistance
This compressed, rundown Arab village with roots that date back thousands of years to the biblical prophet Zachariah, now surrounded by a dozen gleaming Jewish settlements, may not appear like an obvious place to witness Palestinian nonviolent resistance.

But it is there, if you look and listen carefully.

It's in the low-slung, trailerlike building that functions as a community school, even though it is stifling hot in the summer and often drenched with rain in the winter. In the compact grocery store run by a few enterprising women and lit by solar panels - an incongruous sight against the scruffy landscape. In the tall, cone-shaped tree where villagers have affixed a speaker to broadcast the call to prayer, because the Israeli authorities wouldn't allow them to complete a nearby minaret whose jagged, unfinished exterior reaches half-heartedly into the sky.

"There's nothing legal here," acknowledges Abu Ibrahim, a member of the village council who spoke through a translator to a group of American Jewish visitors. And that's the point of the Palestinians' resistance: Unable to get official permission to build a school, expand a home or a business, or erect a proper place for worship, the residents of Khaled Zakaria went ahead anyway, risking arrests and fines to provide a radically scaled-down version of the communal amenities enjoyed by the Jewish settlers across the road.

Comment: Non-violent resistance is a form of staying alive - an acceptance, but is it a life-giving form?

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British man claiming to be pharmacist from Birmingham arrested in Syria on suspicion of being a Daesh member


Sputnik
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 11:59 UTC
British pharmacist ISIS Syria
British pharmacist from Birmingham' filmed blindfolded in Syria after being held on suspicion of joining ISIS

Shouldn't Have Quit His Day Job: Daesh UK Pharmacist Detained in Syria From Pills to the Pillory: Daesh-Linked Pharmacist from UK Detained in Syria

Anwar Miah, a British national who claims to be a pharmacist from Birmingham, has been arrested in Syria on suspicion of being a member of the notorious terrorist group Daesh, the BBC reported.

A video of his capture by Kurdish forces in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor a month ago, posted on Twitter, shows a blindfolded Miah saying he has spent the past four years working as a medic in territory when it was under Daesh rule.

"I'm a qualified pharmacist from the UK. I've been working in the hospitals since I came," said Anwar Miah, who is reportedly being held in a prison in northern Syria, guarded by US special forces.
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Australia's strawberry sabotage spreads to New Zealand


RT
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:39 UTC
Strawberries
© Bai Xuefei/Global Look Press
Australia's fruit sabotage has spread to neighbouring New Zealand after a punnet of strawberries contaminated with needles was sold in an Auckland supermarket.

Originating from a farm in Western Australia, this is the first time a contaminated punnet has surfaced in New Zealand after more than 100 alleged incidents of pins and needles being found in fruit such as strawberries, mangos and bananas have been reported in Australia since the scare began in the state of Queensland earlier this month.

The Choice brand strawberries were sold in a Woolworths-owned Countdown supermarket in Auckland, one of New Zealand's biggest supermarket chains. Countdown have since pulled the Australian strawberries from their shelves while the incident is being investigated.

Rival chain Foodstuffs have also halted deliveries of Australian fruit as a precaution.
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