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Saudi Arabia upholds death sentence for disabled man 'tortured for confession'

Munir Adam Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia has upheld a death sentence for a disabled man, arrested in 2012 on suspicion of taking part in protests and then tortured until he signed a "false confession," according to a rights group. The decision leaves the man with one last appeal before King Salman makes his execution official.

Munir Adam, 23, was arrested in 2012 for allegedly taking part in protests in the Eastern Province. According to Reprieve, a rights group of international lawyers and investigators, Saudi police "tortured" the man and "forced him to sign a false confession," which then served "as the sole piece of evidence against him."

Adam, who already had impaired sight and hearing, allegedly lost complete hearing in one ear as a result of the beatings.

Comment: Further reading: Saudi Arabia is the biggest sponsor of terrorism, not Iran


Life Preserver

10,000 migrants rescued, dozens drown including children, trying to reach Italy from Libya

Rescuing migrants
© Giorgos Moutafis / Reuters
Nearly 10,000 migrants were rescued off the coasts of Italy and Libya this week, as the leaders of G7 gathered for a summit coincidentally held in Sicily. And at least 54 people have drowned in the Mediterranean since Tuesday.

Large-scale rescue efforts off the Italian coast on Friday saved 2,200 migrants who risked their lives traveling in unworthy sea vessels to reach Italy. Italian coastguard and commercial boats delivered those rescued to reception centers in Italy. A further 1,200 people were rescued by Libyan ships and taken to Tripoli or Zawiya.


Some 6,400 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean between Tuesday and Thursday.

The Italian coastguard also discovered another 10 bodies, bringing to 54 the total number of officially registered deaths this week, officials told AFP.


The biggest tragedy occurred on Wednesday, when 35 migrants drowned, including at least 10 children, after they fell off an overloaded vessel that was hit by a huge wave while being rescued by an aid boat.

Info

UK police release photo of Manchester bomber on night of attack, find device 'assembly place'

Salman Abedi
© Greater Manchester Police / ReutersSalman Abedi
British police have released a photo of the Manchester bomber on the night of attack, taken shortly before he blew himself up killing 22 people. Authorities also said they found a "highly relevant" flat, believed to be the "final assembly place" of the explosive device.

Greater Manchester Police have released stills from CCTV footage taken on Monday night, showing the Manchester Arena bomber, Salman Abedi, just before the deadly attack which killed 22 people and injured dozens others.

Comment: For all previous updates see: Crowds flee Ariana Grande concert in Manchester following reports of explosion; at least 22 killed and 59 injured - UPDATES


Stormtrooper

Saudi Arabia releases video showing men how to beat their wives

Saudi Women beaten
The national television of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has aired a video, in which a self-styled Islamic family doctor is seen teaching men in the country how to ‘properly’ beat their wives
The national television of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has aired a video, in which a self-styled Islamic family doctor is seen teaching men in the country how to 'properly' beat their wives.

The video is believed to have been aired in the country in early February, 2016. The Kingdom's government is said to have approved the video, and that is why it was given airtime on national television.

After airing the video in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government released the controversial video in the United States via the Washington DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute, in April 2016. Women activists group describe the video as nothing less than infuriating.

Star of David

An Interview with Gilad Atzmon: Jewish identity politics and survival strategies

Gilad Atzmon
Gilad Atzmon
Introduction by GA: In this interview, Aedon Cassiel (Counter-Currents) focuses on the most problematic and controversial aspects in my work. We spoke about Jewish power in the context of race, biology, genes and eugenics. We delved into Jewish survival strategies, controlled opposition, the identitarian dystopia and nationalist nostalgia. We also looked at The Bell Curve and cognitive partitioning. Cassiel didn't cut me slack. He criticized my work form right wing vintage. I must admit that I had a lot of fun with his questions.

In your work, who do you consider yourself to be speaking to? If you don't have a specific audience in mind, then my question is: if only one group of people could hear your message, who would you choose, and what would you have them do about it?

This is important to me. I do not intend to speak to people of any specific persuasion. I am not an activist and have zero interest in political involvement. I am engaged in an intellectual search. Jews fascinate me - their troubled history, their survival strategies, their overrepresentation in media, politics, banking, the Manhattan Project, the list of the one hundred worst landlords in New York City, academia, and their dominance in political lobbying. I am trying to identify the cultural roots at the core of all that. In short, I am interested in the metaphysics that forms the Jew rather than the Jew himself. I am after culture and ideology.

Cult

New York administration employee arrested for 'having 3,000 photos and 89 videos of child porn depicting infants'

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© FacebookSchwartz is the president of the Manhattan Young Democrats and the downstate region vice president of the state's chapter, though both websites have removed his photo
A de Blasio administration employee and leading New York young Democrat has been arrested on felony charges of child pornography.

Jacob Schwartz, 29, was allegedly keeping more than 3,000 photographs and 89 videos of child pornography, including pictures of baby girls as young as six-months-old, court papers revealed.

The highly illegal content shows 'young nude females between the approximate ages of six months and 16 (years) engaging in sexual conduct on an adult male,' reported the New York Post.

Schwartz's father, labor lawyer Arthur Schwartz, called his son's case a 'personal tragedy'.

Snowflake

Feminists sue university for failing to protect them from mean internet comments

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© AP Photo/Matt Rourke
A feminist student group at the University of Mary Washington has filed a Title IX lawsuit against the institution for failing to protect them from mean comments on the internet.

Feminists United, a student group at the University of Mary Washington, has claimed in a recently filed lawsuit that the administration failed to protect them from posts made on the anonymous social media app, Yik Yak.

The suit alleges that the university failed to protect the students by refusing to ban access to the app via the university's wifi system. The complaint ignores the reality that most students have access to the app via LTE internet service on their cellular devices, which would render a ban on the university's wifi system almost worthless.

The students claim that the university's decision to allow students to access the app via the school's wifi network fostered a hostile environment in which the students were subjected to "overtly and/or sexist/threatening" anonymous messages.

Stormtrooper

Innocent man mauled nearly to death as cops sic K9 on him with no warning

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Don't do anything wrong, some say, and you won't have to worry about the police hurting you. While this seems logical enough, in police state USA, nothing could be further from the truth. Tim Young, an innocent AC repairman, who was so badly injured by police siccing their K9 on him that he had a prolonged stay in ICU, is just one recent example that blows that notion out of the water.

On May 5, Tim and his dad Allen were repairing a customer's air conditioner. They weren't committing a crime, had never committed a crime, and, contrary to the apologist cliché, had done nothing wrong. However, that did nothing to stop the Harris County Sheriff's Department from unleashing their deadly K9 on Tim.

The department claims they were looking for a suspected car thief and when they saw a man under a modular home, this was grounds enough to unleash the deadly K9.

"I didn't hear [anything]," Young said. "I didn't see [anything]. I just felt a real sharp pain and I look down and there is a dog."

Question

Federal prosecutor found dead on Hollywood Beach

 Beranton J. Whisenant Jr.
Federal prosecutor found dead on beach in Hollywood
A federal prosecutor who was found dead this week on a South Florida beach possibly suffered head trauma, authorities said.

Hollywood police spokeswoman Miranda Grossman said the body of Beranton J. Whisenant Jr., 37, was found early Wednesday by a passerby on the city's beach.

She said detectives are trying to determine if the death was a homicide, suicide or something else.

Heart - Black

2 killed, 1 injured while attempting to stop Islamophobic attack in Portland

Jeremy Joseph Christian
© Portland Police
Two people were stabbed to death and another person sustained injuries when they attempted to diffuse an Islamophobic attack against two women on board a local commuter train in Portland, Oregon Friday.

Officers responded to reports of a stabbing on a MAX train at the Hollywood Transit Station at 4:30pm local time.

One man died at the scene and another was taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead. A third victim sustained injuries in the attack, but they are not believed to be life-threatening, according to a police statement.