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Senate passes new sexual harassment policy: Taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for Congressional misconduct

Breck Dumas
The Blaze
Fri, 25 May 2018 03:44 UTC
US Congress sexual harassment
© Mark Wilson / GettyThe Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would set a new sexual harassment policy for Congress. The bill was passed unanimously, and is now on its way to the House.
Chair of the Senate Rules Committee, Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and ranking member Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) have announced the upper chamber's passing of a new sexual harassment policy for Congress.

In a news release on Thursday, Sen. Blunt said: "All members of the U.S. Senate stood together today in making sure the men and women who work for the Congress will be respected. Harassment of any kind will not be tolerated and perpetrators will be held accountable.

"Hardworking taxpayers should not foot the bill for a Member's misconduct, and victims should not have to navigate a system that stands in the way of accountability."

The bill was passed unanimously. Now, it's on its way to the House.

Comment: Previously:

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Pistol

Armed bystander kills mass shooter at Oklahoma restaurant


Conservative Fighters
Fri, 25 May 2018 15:27 UTC
police scene
An armed citizen shot and killed a mass shooter at a restaurant in Oklahoma on Thursday after the gunman walked in and opened fire, hitting several people.

"A man walked into the Louie's restaurant and opened fire with a gun. Two people were shot," police said, CNN reported. "A bystander with a pistol confronted the shooter outside the restaurant and fatally shot him."

Oklahoma City Police tweeted: "ALERT: The only confirmed fatality is the suspect. He was apparently shot-to-death by an armed citizen. Three citizens were injured, two of whom were shot. A large number of witnesses are detained. There is no indication of terrorism at this point."
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SWAT team raids the wrong house, throws flash-bang grenade into a 6 year-old's bedroom

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 23 May 2018 15:11 UTC
SWAT raid on family
Young children were traumatized and injured by flash-bang grenades, an innocent father was terrorized and arrested by police, and their home was damaged, after a SWAT team carried out an early morning no-knock raid on the wrong house.

The ordeal began at 5:50 a.m. on Tuesday when the Bradley County Sheriff's Office teamed up with federal agents to conduct a raid on a house where they claimed a suspect in a murder case was staying. However, they actually terrorized an innocent family in a careless raid that should never have happened.

Spencer Renck shared the story in a Facebook status, noting that he had just gotten out of bed and was preparing to get ready for work when he heard loud noises and immediately thought his home was being burglarized.

"I heard loud banging noises upstairs so I grab my gun and try to run upstairs to protect my family from whatever was happening. I thought someone had broken in," Renck said. "But no it was the Bradley County and Hamilton County SWAT team RAIDING my house."

Comment: SWAT first, ask questions later:

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Arrow Down

100+ Palestinians injured: March of Return protests resume at Gaza-Israel border


RT
Sat, 26 May 2018 22:48 UTC
Palestinian
© Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / ReutersA Palestinian runs during clashes with Israeli troops, March 30, 2018.
More than 100 Palestinian protesters have been injured after gathering at the Israel-Gaza border to continue the March of Return protests, which have been marred by violence for over a month.

As of May 21, a total of 112 people have been killed, including 13 children and two journalists, and more than 13,000 people have been injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

On Friday, violence erupted again near Khan Younis, when Israeli troops fired tear gas and live rounds to ward off protesters who had gathered and burned tires about 800 meters from a security fence. Around 1,600 protesters descended on the area, with the Israel Defence Forces stating that rocks and burning tires were hurled at troops.

The violence follows the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to back the IDF in using live ammunition against protesters in Gaza. According to Reuters, the IDF also shot at burning projectiles such as kites sent towards Israeli territory.
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People

Last ditch cry for help: Muslim girls fearing child marriage smuggle spoons in their underwear to alert airport security

Victoria Friedman
Breitbart
Wed, 23 May 2018 14:57 UTC
muslim girls
© FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty
Girls in Sweden are being advised that if they fear being taken overseas to be subjected to a forced marriage or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) that they should hide a spoon in their underwear.

"The spoon will trigger metal detectors when you go through security checks," said Katarina Idegård who is the development manager for the unit charged with tackling honour-based violence in Sweden's second biggest city Gothenburg.

"You will be taken aside and you can then talk to staff in private," Ms. Idegård told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"It is a last chance to sound the alarm," she added.

Airport staff in Gothenburg have been trained on how to handle such situations, and campaigners hope other cities and airports will adopt the same procedure.

Reuters reports that Sweden keeps no statistics on the number of girls who are sent abroad to be forced into marriages, but Ms. Idegård said a hotline has received 139 calls last year about forced and child marriages.
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Info

Julian Assange willing to testify on alleged Russian hacking


RT
Sat, 26 May 2018 13:19 UTC
Julian Assange
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is reportedly willing to testify in the investigation surrounding alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

The claim that Assange is willing to speak to congressional investigators was made on Friday by his long-time associate, Randy Credico. Radio host Credico told MSNBC's Ari Melber that Assange wanted to speak with Democrat Adam Schiff to "clear this whole thing up."

Credico challenged Schiff to travel to the UK to interview Assange, saying: "He's got the credibility, Nixon went to China."
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HRW: Ukraine's censorship of Russian media undermines democracy


RT
Fri, 25 May 2018 18:11 UTC
Moscow headquarters of Russia's Rossiya Segodnya state media group.
© Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFPMoscow headquarters of Russia's Rossiya Segodnya state media group.
The newly-imposed ban on Russian media outlets in Ukraine limits freedom of expression and undermines democracy in the country, Rachel Denber, deputy director for Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Europe and Central Asia, said.

"The Ukrainian government's sanctioning of Russian state media outlets is part of a series of measures it has taken that limit media pluralism and freedom of expression and undermine democracy in Ukraine," Denber told the RIA-Novosti news agency.

On Thursday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree that blocked access to websites of Russian state media outlets and froze their assets in Ukraine for three years. The Rossiya Segodnya media group, which includes RIA-Novosti and Sputnik among other outlets, as well as Russian federal broadcasters Chanel One, Rossiya 1, Rossiya 24, NTV, REN TV and others, were targeted by the sanctions.

Comment: Ukraine is doing what any failing country run by corrupt officials does, it limits the flow of information in the belief it can fool its people into believing the enemy, Russia, in this case, is to blame for all its ills. But propaganda can only do so much and it is abundantly clear that the quality of life in Ukraine has begun to deteriorate rapidly since the US-backed coup:

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NRA TV host: Nobody glorifies school shooters more than the mainstream media


RT
Sat, 26 May 2018 11:06 UTC
media Sandy Hook school shooting
© Michelle McLoughlin / ReutersMembers of the media at Sandy Hook Elementary School, December 14, 2012.
The media - not guns - needs to be controlled to help prevent school shootings, NRA TV host Colion Noir has argued. The modest proposal is meant only as a criticism of gun control laws, he says.

In a four-minute video commentary for the National Rifle Association's (NRA) television channel, Noir said out-of-control media feeding frenzies were giving platforms to killers who longed to be in the lime light.

"These kids aren't being inspired by an innate hunk of plastic and metal laying on a table, they're inspired by the infamous glory of past shooters who they relate to," Noir said.

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Family

Philip Giraldi: Among the Persians

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Tue, 22 May 2018 22:26 UTC
PHilip Giraldi at Iran meeting
Philip Giraldi at The New Horizon International Conference which was held at the Al-Ghadir Hotel in Mashhad
Iranians want to be friends with Americans but Israel hates the idea

I have just spent a week in Mashad and Tehran Iran, speaking at an international conference on the future of Jerusalem as well as other related issues while also meeting with a broad range of Iranians, including journalists, students and government officials. The conference was organized by a non-government organization called New Horizon. It was the sixth such conference, intended to bring together speakers from a number of countries to discuss issues involving Middle Eastern security and identity issues.

To be sure, Iran, threatened as it is from all sides, has certain aspects of a security state. And as what is essentially a partial democracy run along religious lines, it has very clear limits on what constitutes acceptable behavior. But I think the representatives of the thirty or so countries who attended the congress would agree that there was no attempt made to limit free speech or guide discussions. The only attempt to censor the conference and its content has been, I would note, the blocking of sponsor New Horizon's website on Google and presumably elsewhere in the Zionist/U.S. dominated social media and information-searching world. Indeed, the only coordinated activity that might have been noted at the conference itself was the loud hissing noise that accompanied any mention of the name John Bolton.
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Justice? Child rapist avoids prison, pot dealer gets five years

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 25 May 2018 22:17 UTC
crying girl
A wealthy California businessman found out that he will escape jail this week for the rape of a five-year-old girl. What's more, the 79-year-old convicted rapist will not have to register as a sex offender. Consequently, a father in Pennsylvania was sentenced to years behind bars for selling a plant that helps people.

Lyle Burgess, the rapist from California received a sweet deal from prosecutors this week after pleading no contest to felony statutory rape of a girl who is now 7-years-old.

According to the family's attorney, the victim was only five when she was raped by Burgess after he invited the little girl and her family out to his Calaveras County cabin back in 2016.

According to investigators, the girl's father had known Burgess for decades. Sadly, going after family and friends is a common tactic of many child molesters.

"They trusted this man, he was a family friend, and he took advantage of them," Meleyco said.
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