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Meet Yifat Doron: Activist who slapped the prosecutor at Tamimi military trial but was given only 2 days in jail

Yoav Haifawi
Mondoweiss
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:21 UTC
Yifat Doron
Yifat Doron in detention
Although it is officially subject to the open court principle, the public is rarely allowed a glimpse into the Israeli military tribunal at Ofer (near Ramallah), one of the pillars of the occupation in the West Bank, which denies the basic human rights of the Palestinian population. At a time of general despair and loss of way for the Palestinian resistance, the trial of Ahed Tamimi is repositioning the Palestinian struggle in its original context: a confrontation between a mighty oppressive apparatus and a people aspiring to basic freedoms. The trial has also momentarily shed light on the military court at Ofer.

Much has been said regarding the court's decision to hold Ahed's trial in camera, denying her request for an open trial. The judges claimed to be protecting her interests as a minor. But they certainly were not protecting her from public disgrace, as her actions have been lauded by both Palestinian and international public opinion. Obviously the judges were trying to protect themselves from disgrace and farther public outrage.

But even the trial of Nariman Tamimi, Ahed's mother, was not really held in an open court. The military court allows the presence of only two family members for every Palestinian defendant at best. It offers a certain advantage to supporters in possession of an Israeli ID who wish to enter the compound: they may be allowed to attend trials, subject to special authorization issued by the military, after sending a formal request by fax.
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Brick Wall

Survey finds 78 percent of Europeans want tighter immigration controls

Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
Breitbart News
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:22 UTC
migrant entering EU
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A massive poll covering all 28 European Union (EU) states has revealed an overwhelming concern over illegal immigration with more than three-quarters of EU citizens saying that Europe's external borders should be better protected.

The sweeping February survey conducted by the Századvég Foundation's Project 28 sampled one thousand adult citizens from each of the 28 EU countries, and found a remarkable consistency of thought regarding the dangers of unchecked immigration.

What is "most striking" about the survey, wrote the Spectator's Douglas Murray on March 24, is that "there is such extraordinary unanimity around the question of immigration."

"While numerous political divides exist within each of the 28 member states, and considerable differences exist between them, only on the matters of migration, borders and security can this not be said," he observed.
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Sheriff

NJ cops angrily confront Domino's manager over failed pizza delivery

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:41 UTC
cops in scuffle
Two New Jersey police officers have been suspended without pay after multiple videos showed them attacking a Domino's manager while on Duty. Surprisingly, both of them have also been charged with multiple crimes.

Rodney Clark and Courtney Solomon are both charged with disorderly conduct, harassment and making terroristic threats after they stormed into a Domino's pizza restaurant and began shaking down the manager.

Marina Elsamina, an employee at the Communipaw Avenue pizza shop, told The Jersey Journal in an interview that workers there received an online complaint on Tuesday evening by one of the police officers, apparently over a delivery issue, according to NJ.com.

Shortly after receiving the complaint, the officers showed up at the store and began attacking the manager, Mena Kirolos. The initial confrontation was captured on employee cellphones as well as surveillance video.

After the officers threw the innocent man up against the wall, they then demanded he go outside. According to the video, Kirolos, and multiple witnesses, cops made several threats toward him while physically assaulting him and saying they were going to lock him up-over pizza.
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Red Flag

Teacher gives 7th grade students assignment: Write paper asking Congress for stricter gun control laws

Sandy Malone
Blue Lives Matter
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:02 UTC
hampton middle school
A 7th Grade social studies teacher tasked with teaching his students about Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, recently gave his students an assignment to write a letter to Congress supporting gun control.

Blue Lives Matter obtained a copy of the assignment.

The assignment "topic" was listed as "You are trying to persuade lawmakers to have stricter gun laws to help prevent another school shooting from taking place."

"For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States. The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States. Your letter should contain at least five complete sentences. Make sure that you use proper grammatical skills when writing your letter," read the assignment given out by social studies teacher Corey Sanders to his students at Hampton Middle School.
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Snowflake Cold

Coal plants facing closure prevented 'widespread blackouts' this winter, oh... and a little help from Russia

Michael Bastasch
The Daily Caller
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:09 UTC
Snow storm
© REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC175385BDD0A woman walks in the snow during a winter nor'easter storm in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., March 21, 2018.
Coal-fired power plants kept the lights on for millions of Americans during January's bomb cyclone, according to an Energy Department report warning future plant retirements could imperil grid security.

Energy analysts at DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory found that coal power kept the lights on for millions of Americans during the bomb cyclone that pummeled the eastern U.S. from late December to early January.

NETL analysts found that coal plants made up most of the incremental power utilities relied on to keep electricity flowing during the cold snap. Nuclear and oil power plants played a big role, NETL found, but coal provided 55 percent of extra power across six grid operators.

"During the worst of the storm from January 5-6, 2018, actual U.S. electricity market experience demonstrated that without the resilience of coal- and fuel oil/dual-firing plants ... the eastern United States would have suffered severe electricity shortages, likely leading to widespread blackouts," NETL researchers reported.
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Eye 1

Censorship in social media: Facebook quietly announces it will fact-check political posts

Paula Bolyard
PJ Media
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:43 UTC
zuckerberg
© Chris Ratcliffe/PA Wire
Facebook announced today that the company began fact-checking political photos and videos on Wednesday in an attempt to root out fake news. The company announced in a blog post that the changes come as a result of Facebook's plan to review "ongoing election efforts."

"By now, everyone knows the story: during the 2016 US election, foreign actors tried to undermine the integrity of the electoral process," Guy Rosen, vice president of product management at Facebook, wrote. "Their attack included taking advantage of open online platforms - such as Facebook - to divide Americans, and to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt." Rosen said although the clock cannot be turned back, "we are all responsible for making sure the same kind of attack [on] our democracy does not happen again." He said Facebook is taking its role in the effort "very, very seriously."
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Heart - Black

Palestinian farmer killed by Israeli tank fire amid mass protests on Land Day, local authorities claim


RT
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:43 UTC
Israeli tank
© Siegfried Modola / ReutersFILE PHOTO
The IDF has confirmed they fired a tank shell at two Palestinians who approached a security fence in Gaza, hours ahead of upcoming mass protests in the area. The tank killed a local farmer, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), two suspects approached a security fence in the southern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Friday morning and engaged in "suspicious activity."

"In response, our forces fired a tank shell at them. There is a claim about a Palestinian who was killed [in the shelling]," according to the statement from the IDF.
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Bad Guys

Turkish television caught deliberately mistranslating subtitles when interviewing Afrin local about YPG

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:49 UTC
afrin resident interview
© Turkish TV
A Turkish television station has been caught deliberately changing subtitles to what a local Kurdish resident in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin actually said.

Turkish TV asking an old resident of Afrin about the situation in Afrin, two weeks after Turkish-led forces and their Syrian puppets captured the city from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).

The elderly man replies: "The Free Syrian Army are not free, they are thugs and looters, rapists, they raped girls..."

Rather then omitting this from their bias report, the Turkish television crew instead translated everything totally different.
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Attention

Sweden retracts 'utterly crazy' government leaflet on child marriage after public uproar


Sputnik
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:42 UTC
Teddy bear
© CC0 / Pixabay
The leaflet was commissioned by the government and included detailed instructions for people married to children covering all spheres of life, including intimacy. However, it has caused an outrage among the Swedish public, who found that it normalized such behavior instead of preventing it.

The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare has withdrawn an information brochure targeted at "new arrivals" moving to the Nordic country while married to children after it caused an uproar among politicians and ordinary Swedes alike, Swedish national broadcaster SVT reported.
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Vote: Dutch reject 'big bro' legislation expanding surveillance powers of security agencies


RT
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:12 UTC
Guylightpole
© Cris Toala Olivares / ReutersDutch said no.
The Dutch population does not want security agencies to receive more surveillance powers, official results of the referendum showed. Although only advisory, the vote sends a strong signal to the government pushing for the law.

The Electoral Council said 49.4 percent of the voters spoke out against the Intelligence and Security Law during the March 21 referendum. The legislation was supported by 46.5 percent, with four percent of those participating casting blank ballots, it added. The addition of the law on the ballot boosted voter turnout to almost 52 percent, far exceeding the minimum turnout of 30 percent required for a plebiscite to be declared valid.

The new legislation, which the opponents dubbed the 'Big Data Law,' or data mining law, provides additional powers to the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD).

Among other things, it would allow the country's two security agencies to tap telephone and internet traffic on a large scale, which would include reaching an alleged perpetrator by hacking devices of those not under suspicion.

The data obtained through such surveillance would be stored for up to three years, and the AIVD and the MIVD would be granted the right to share this information with foreign colleagues, even without performing any preliminary analysis themselves. The law would also enable the Dutch security agencies to store DNA material for people.

Comment: The government has already decided this action and it is going into effect no matter what transpires from the public. "To do justice" by the referendum "in the shortest time possible" means 'wink and pass it anyway." Sound familiar?

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