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Former Taliban hostage charged with sexual assault after his release from captivity


Fox News
Sat, 27 Jan 2018 23:03 UTC
Joshua Boyle
© Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via APJoshua Boyle, the former Afghanistan hostage, will undergo a comprehensive psychiatric assessment after a court appearance in Ottawa Friday.
The Canadian held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan with his wife and three children is facing a string of new charges including accusations that he carried out a sexual assault with ropes and at least one physical assault with a broomstick following his release from captivity.

Joshua Boyle, 34, the husband of 31-year-old American Caitlan Coleman Boyle was arrested earlier this month in Ottawa.

The specifics of the accusations have not been released. A court order prevents publication of the name of Boyle's alleged victim or identifying information.

Boyle and his American wife were on a backpacking trip in Afghanistan in October 2012 when they were kidnapped by extremists linked to the Taliban.
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Assassination: Former president of Guatemala's supreme court


teleSUR
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Jose Arturo Sierra
© Deguate.comJose Arturo Sierra, former president of Guatemala's Supreme Court
The former president of Guatemala's Supreme Court, has been assassinated while in his car in the country's capital city. Sierra was shot to death while traveling in a private car in Guatemala City's Zone 11. He was taken by local firefighters to Roosevelt Hospital, but died on the way.

Witnesses say Sierra was attacked by two armed assailants riding a motorcycle, but it's unkown the assassination was planned. Unconfirmed reports suggest he was shot up to seven times.

It's also unclear whether the attack was politically motivated, because Sierra had retired from his position as the head of the Supreme Court. His murder is now being investigated by the The National Civic Police (PNC) and the Public Ministry (MP).
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Going viral: Thousands call for lawmakers to 'Release The Memo' in Twitter #NotABot campaign

Vincent James
The Red Elephants
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
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Adam Schiff, (D) and Dianne Feinstein, (D) recently suggested that the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag campaign that exploded onto social media over the past few days is contributed mostly to propaganda pushed by Russian AI bots on twitter.

After hearing what Feinstein and Schiff suggested, Americans all across social media who are advocating for the release of the allegedly damning four-page memorandum, took to twitter this week to show that they are not 'bots' at all, and that they are real Americans who are demanding transparency.

Prominent social media conservatives like Mike Tokes, Scott Pressler and a team of other influencers including TheAlx, jbro_1776, and ARmastrangelo launched the campaign Thursday and it was quickly mimicked by tens of thousands of accounts.

Comment: See also: Propaganda alert: 'Russian bots' helping Americans expose their own corrupt government

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SJW laden Evergreen state college hosts lecture equating free speech fight with white supremacy

Ian Miles Cheong
Daily Caller
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:32 UTC
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© Vimeo screenshot/The Evergreen State College, YouTube screenshot/Liam Dominic Fanning
Evergreen State College, the site of last year's most publicized campus social justice-related fiasco, recently hosted a lecture that equated free speech with white supremacy.

In 2017, the college entered the national spotlight for holding a so-called "Day of Absence" that forced white students out of the campus for a day. One professor's criticism of the event, and his refusal to abide by the decision, prompted progressive student groups to threaten him with violence and accuse him of supporting white supremacy.

On Monday, the Washington-based public college invited a veteran civil rights lawyer, Alan Levine, to host a lecture originally titled "Campus Protests and the Fight against White Supremacy: How the Right Turned a Nationwide Movement Against Racism into a Debate about the First Amendment."

Comment: If people can't have reasonable and open discourse about issues, which may end up offending people, how can we have any progress in society?

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Poll: Most Americans want big cuts to legal immigration

Stephen Dinan
Washington Times
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Dreamer protest
© APMaria Angelica Ramirez carries a large key reading “My Dream” during a protest outside the office of Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Cutting chain migration even more popular than legalizing Dreamers

A government shutdown is in the rearview mirror, but the outlines of a looming immigration deal remain murky with the sides still far apart - though the latest polling suggests President Trump's bargaining position may be strong.

A Harvard-Harris poll taken in the run-up to the shutdown found Americans strongly support granting citizenship rights to illegal immigrant Dreamers. But they also back Mr. Trump's three demands for a border wall, limits to the chain of family migration and an end to the Diversity Visa Lottery.

Most striking of all is the public's demand for lower overall legal immigration - a position that has little traction on Capitol Hill but one that is overwhelmingly popular across the country.

The poll found that most Americans want annual legal immigration capped at 500,000 a year or less - far lower than the current annual rate of 1.3 million.
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Facebook censorship pushing alt media to new social networking platforms

Caitlin Johnstone
Steemit
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:14 UTC
facebook censorship
I'm suddenly having a much harder time getting my articles in front of people due to a drastic plummet in the amount of views I'm getting from Facebook. According to my Medium account's statistics, I've gone from receiving many thousands of views from Facebook to just a few hundred over the last week or so, and the reach of my FB page has been slashed to a quarter of what it was in the same amount of time.

This likely has something to do with changes that Facebook has announced it is making in its News Feed algorithm, but it's hard to know exactly to what extent or whether anything else is going on. All I know is far fewer people are seeing me on that site now.

It's impacting everyone in alternative media, though.

Comment: Are we seeing the beginning of an exodus from Myspace Facebook?

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A new California voter policy could register a potentially massive number of illegals

Amanda Prestigiacomo
The Daily Wire
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
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A new California policy set to go into effect on April 1 could potentially register a massive number of illegal immigrants to vote.

The policy would automatically register adults who obtain or renew a driver's license to vote unless drivers who claim to be legal "opt out." But, since 2015, California has granted illegal immigrants driver's licenses. Thus far, some 1 million illegals have taken advantage and obtained such a license. According to Fox News, under the new policy, "anyone who already has a valid license and applies for renewal in person or by mail could potentially be added to the voter registration rolls by claiming they are legal."

"You're setting the state up for a disaster," said True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht. "They don't seem to have a process in place to verify that people are who they say they are. It's a free-for-all, a process that can be manipulated." Engelbrecht's organization unsuccessfully pressured Democratic Governor Jerry Brown to veto the law.

Linda Paine, who cofounded a nonpartisan organization called Election Integrity Project of California, is also worried about potential fraud.

"There are thousands and thousands of DMV workers across our huge state," Paine told Fox. "They're not all trained. There's no actual protection to prevent noncitizens from being added to voter rolls. It's not even that people who are ineligible want to be registered. They may not know that they have to select 'Opt out.'"

Comment: See also:

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EU court rules 'gay tests' for asylum seekers as persecution, invasion of privacy


RT
Sat, 27 Jan 2018 02:49 UTC
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The European Court of Justice has ruled it is wrong to question asylum seekers' claims of persecution for their homosexuality. RT guests discuss whether psychological testing is justifiable and what possible alternatives exist.

"An asylum seeker may not be subjected to a psychological test in order to determine his sexual orientation," according to a ruling by the European Court of Justice published on Thursday after a Nigerian man complained of having undergone such testing in Hungary.

"The performance of such a test amounts to a disproportionate interference in the private life of the asylum seeker," the court ruled.

The court's ruling has ignited an ethical debate about the boundaries of the state's interference in one's private life. The court examined the case of an unnamed man from Nigeria, who submitted his asylum application to Hungarian authorities in the city of Szeged in April 2015. At that time Hungary was experiencing a huge influx of asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East.


Comment: Are LGBT communities testing for 'straight' people?

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US Immigration agents to use thousands of license plate readers on 'hot list' targets


RT
Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:46 UTC
traffic cameras
© Global Look Press
Federal immigration agents will soon have access to an automatic camera system that can locate and track vehicles in real time. Civil rights advocates worry the technology will be used against Americans.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be able to track billions of license plates with the help of a third-party vendor that specializes in license plate reader (LPR) technology, according to a contract finalized earlier this month.

LPR is a system of high-speed cameras mounted on vehicles or stationary locations that automatically photograph license plates that come in the range of the devices. The system captures an image of the license plate and records the GPS location of the vehicle along with the date and time and other identifiable information.

"Like most other law enforcement agencies, ICE uses information obtained from license plate readers as one tool in support of its investigations," ICE spokesman James Schwab said in a statement obtained by KPIX.

The contract does not specify the commercial vendor, but an ICE representative told The Verge that the data will come from Vigilant Solutions, a leading network for licence plate recognition data.
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Rhode Island, Connecticut and Illinois ranked as the 'worst possible states to live'


Daily Mail
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:41 UTC
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Around a quarter of Illinois, Connecticut and Rhode Island residents described their state as the worst possible one to live in, according to a survey.
If you live in Illinois, Connecticut or Rhode Island, the chances are you know someone who is not happy. Not happy at all.

Around a quarter of the population living in these regions have described them each as the 'worst possible state to live in', according to a survey.

The map data doesn't explain the nature of the residents' grievances.

However, classic socio-economic indicators would clearly be relevant - including work-life balance, healthcare, crime levels, education, housing, income and the environment.

While 21-25 per cent of people in the Gallup survey ranked these three states as the 'worst', Louisiana and Mississippi also featured prominently - with 17-20 per cent describing the two southern states as the worst.
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