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Denmark's People's Party pushes for another burqa ban; 62% of the population in favor


RT
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 10:57 UTC
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A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Danes support a ban on face-covering Islamic garb with only one in five opposing such a measure. A populist local party will attempt to reintroduce burqa-banning legislation in parliament after three previous failed attempts.

"It is very positive. It shows the debate is moving forward and means the other parties in parliament are also catching on. At least, I hope they are," Martin Henriksen, a member of the Danish People's Party, which has made the legislation a symbolic centerpiece told the broadcaster DR, which commissioned the survey.

Out of 1,000 people asked, 62 percent said they were in favor of a ban on both the niqab and the burqa in public, 23 percent said they were against the measure, and 12 percent said they did not know. The result is in line with other similar surveys in recent months, which show attitudes hardening towards a piece of clothing associated with strict Islam, even if there is no official obligation to wear either such covering clothes in the Koran.

Opponents of the law, which include most of the left-wing parties and the Liberal Alliance - a member of the ruling coalition - have argued that it might isolate Muslim women and prevent them from leaving their houses altogether.
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Judge gives mom ultimatum: Vaccinate your child or go to jail

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:26 UTC
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In a seemingly unprecedented violation of rights, a case out of Detroit, Michigan should worry even the most stringent pro-vaccine advocates. A well-meaning mother has been given an ultimatum by an Oakland County judge-vaccinate your child or go to jail.

While the Free Thought Project has reported on instances of children being denied public services, like school, for not vaccinating their children, the idea that someone could be thrown in jail for choosing to abstain from vaccination is chilling.

"I would rather sit behind bars standing up for what I believe in, than giving in to something I strongly don't believe in," says Rebecca Bredow, a mother of two who has been ordered to vaccinate her son.

In what sounds like a scene from a dystopian novel, Bredow has been backed into a corner and her freedom at risk because she is making a medical decision for her child. By order of an Oakland County judge, Bredow was given one week to fully vaccinate her son or she will be thrown in jail.

To be clear, Bredow did not fully abstain from all vaccinations. She is merely choosing to space them out, like lots of parents do.
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Pew survey shows majority of Trump supporters don't believe in white privilege


RT
Sat, 30 Sep 2017 02:51 UTC
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The poll found 74 percent of Trump's biggest supporters didn't believe in white privilege, according to a Pew Research Center survey. When broken down along party lines, 89 percent of Republicans approved of Trump's job performance and didn't believe in white privilege.

Among Democrats who said whites benefited from white privilege, nearly all 97 percent disapproved of Trump's performance.

The survey also found the perception of societal advantage was split along racial and partisan lines.

Nine out of 10 African-Americans think whites benefit from societal advantages, while only 46 percent of whites say they benefit "a fair amount" and just 16 percent agreed they benefit a "great deal,"

Views among Hispanics fall between those of white people and black people, with about two-thirds (65 percent) stating white people benefit a great deal or a fair amount from societal privileges that black people do not have.
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Angry UC Riverside student steals MAGA hat, demands victim be punished for exercising free speech

Anthony Gockowski
Campus Reform
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:58 UTC
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Images of a student who stole a peer's MAGA hat at the University of California, Riverside.
A Trump-supporting student at the University of California, Riverside had his MAGA hat stolen by a peer who demanded that administrators refuse to allow him to continue to wear it.

A video of the incident obtained by Campus Reform shows an enraged female student taking the hat to the school's Student Life Department as Matthew Vitale fruitlessly attempts to explain to the young woman that the hat is his property.

"So this guy thought it would be a good idea to go into a conference wearing this f***ing hat," the student who stole the hat states. "Look at the kind of sh*t he's wearing, You know what this represents? This represents genocide-genocide of a bunch of people."

Vitale then tries to explain that "you do not get to take other people's property that is legally theirs in this country," to which the unidentified thief replies, "man, f*** your laws."

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Librarian refuses donation of Dr. Seuss books from Melania Trump, citing 'racist propaganda'


CBS Studios
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:59 UTC
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A Massachusetts librarian is facing backlash for rejecting a book donation from the first lady.

Melania Trump gave 50 schools in 50 states a packet of Dr. Seuss books with well wishes in the new school year.

Librarian Liz Soeiro of Cambridgeport Elementary School, however, said thanks but no thanks.

In a letter to the first lady on The Horn Book website, Soeiro explained that the school doesn't need the books.

"Dr. Seuss' illustrations are steeped in racist propaganda, caricatures and harmful stereotypes," she wrote.

Comment: You never could have imagined these times, you just couldn't!

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ABC: Floridians segregated at shelters, forced to wear colored wristbands after Irma

Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:39 UTC
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Shelby Hoogendyk says that when she, her husband, and her 17-month-old son arrived at an emergency shelter as Hurricane Irma closed in, they were separated from others by yellow wristbands and told to stay in an area with other people like them - the ones who were homeless (many from Hurricane Matthew which hit us less than 1 year ago- same location).

According to Hoogendyk, sheriff's deputies (that would be our local sheriff!) told them the wristbands were prompted by problems that arose among other Floridians with no homes less than one year ago when we were directly hit by a category 3 hurricane named Matthew.

"We were treated like we were guilty criminals!" Hoogendyk says.

In the storm's wake, homeless people (many from the storms) and their advocates are complaining that some of them were turned away, segregated from the others, denied cots and food, deprived of medication refills and doctors' visits, or otherwise ill-treated during the evacuation. Again they were even segregated by colored bracelets depending on their class.

Others locally told me today in confidence that they were told they wanted them to go to a camp at a different location but refused and left and would rather sleep outside and beg than be taken away.
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Yikes! Amazon's Echo Spot is a sneaky way to get a camera into your bedroom

Tom Warren
The Verge
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:02 UTC
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Amazon unveiled six new hardware products at its surprise event in Seattle yesterday, but the Echo Spot has everyone talking. Most people think the Echo Spot is cute; a little alarm clock that's designed to sit next to your bed. While all the focus is on what the Echo Spot looks like, it's important to remember that Amazon is using the Spot as a very clever way of making you comfortable with having a camera in your bedroom. It's also a camera that will probably be pointing directly at your bed.

Amazon launched its Echo Look camera earlier this year to judge your outfits. It's designed to sit in your wardrobe and offer you style advice, and it was Amazon's first Echo device with a camera. Amazon quickly followed it up with the Echo Show, a touchscreen device that sits in your kitchen and lets you watch tutorials or recipes and participate in video calls. Amazon's Look device is still only available exclusively by invitation, and in hindsight it now looks like experimental hardware to gauge the reaction of a camera in the bedroom. A litmus test, if you will.

Comment: Insane that people will welcome this into their bedroom and pay for the privilege.

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Steven Seagal interview with Piers Morgan, "Russia and America should be great allies"

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:46 UTC
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Seagal: "For anyone to think that Vladimir Putin had anything to do with fixing the elections is stupid"

Legendary martial artist and Hollywood action star Steven Seagal join Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain, live from Moscow.

Pier Morgan discussed the fake news "Trump-Russia" collusion narrative, asking Seagal to comment on his friendly relations with Russia, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and what his thoughts are regarding the 2016 election meddling pushed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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ICE Is deporting an Ohio father of severely disabled child

Rafi Schwartz
Splinter
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:36 UTC
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Ohio plan to move ahead with the deportation of Pedro Hernandez-Ramirez on Thursday, despite repeated pleas for leniency from his family, community members, and the local Catholic diocese.

Hernandez-Ramirez, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, has spent the past 14 years caring for Juan, his 28-year-old stepson, who has both severe mental disabilities as well as limited mobility due to cerebral palsy. His impending deportation will leave his American-born wife Seleste Wisniewski as Juan's sole caretaker-a role she says she is physically unable to perform.

"I can't lift [Juan] up," Wisniewski told Fox 8 Cleveland. "I can't do it. My husband does all of that. I never thought I would have to think about that."

Advocates for Hernandez-Ramirez had staged a last-minute campaign to persuade ICE to grant a stay of deportation before Thursday's deadline. Officials from the agency denied the request, explaining that Hernandez-Ramirez had been deported several times before.

In 2015, Hernandez-Ramirez was granted a work visa-in part thanks to his role as caregiver to Juan-permitting him to stay in the country through this coming February, at which point, he was told, he could reapply for an extension.
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'Sorry it was a mistake' not good enough! US airstrike wounds 6 in Afghan's family, claims defective missile


RT
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 23:21 UTC
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Ghulam Rabani witnessed a US airstrike destroy his house in residential Kabul, injuring six of his family members, including four children. NATO expressed regret over the Wednesday bombing, but the family told RT's Ruptly video agency it's not enough.

Rabani showed Ruptly the destruction at his house, with missile fragments lying on the ground.

He said he saw American helicopters bomb the house Wednesday afternoon, shortly after an attack on Kabul airport, which the Taliban and the Islamic State terrorist group's local affiliate later claimed responsibility for.

Rabani, who lives around three kilometers (or 1.8 miles) away from the airport, said there were no Taliban or Daesh, another name for Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in his house.

"I am a taxi driver," Rabani, 49, told Ruptly. "They fired a 60-kilogram rocket at my children. They wanted my life, why? I am not a terrorist."

NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan expressed regret for the "harm to noncombatants" caused by the US airstrike and blamed a defective missile, according to AFP.


Comment: The US considers the death and maiming of civilians and destruction of property to be 'collateral damage'. Lives amount to a statistical number next to a line item.

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