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True social justice warriors: How grassroots activists defeated anti-BDS legislation in Maryland

Kim Jensen
Mondoweiss
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:39 UTC
BDS laws Maryland
© Kim JensenFrom left to right, Steve France, Maria Baroody, Rachel Roberts, Zainab Chaudry, Shelley Cohen Fudge, Reverend Marvin Silver, Reverend Alex Vishio, Chips Shutt, Susan Kerin, Jodie Zisow-Mclean, Saqib Ali, Samira Hussein.
Monday, April 10, 2017, marked a significant victory for social justice activism in the state of Maryland. After a vigorous and well-organized campaign, anti-BDS legislation was roundly defeated for the third time in four years.

Like similar legislation that has been enacted in states across the U.S., Senate Bill 739 and House Bill 949 would have denied public benefits and state contracts to businesses, organizations, and individuals who participate in the boycott of Israeli entities. The legislation would have created a de facto blacklist for those who choose to exercise basic first amendment rights. Though the bills are notoriously unconstitutional, it hasn't stopped pro-Israel leaders and politicians from trying to push them onto the books across the country.

This time they lost. Again.
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Bullseye

George Carlin: 'Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners'

Temet Nosce Ousia Nosce
YouTube
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 18:04 UTC
George Carlin
© Via YouTube/Temet Nosce Ousia Nosce
Political Correctness: Based on the non-existent "right" to not be offended.

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Heart - Black

Two family dogs found decapitated, mutilated in Western Colorado

Amy Hamilton
The Daily Sentinel
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 17:02 UTC
B.B. and Calypso
© Fox31
An Orchard Mesa woman is grieving and hoping the public will help identify a suspect after her two pit bull dogs were found decapitated near railroad tracks in the area on Wednesday.

In a disturbing scene detailed in an incident report, several passersby reported seeing two dogs decapitated on the tracks by the shooting range just before 5:45 p.m. Wednesday. A man and a woman who were walking in the area moved the dogs from the middle of the tracks because they didn't want a train to further mutilate the animals, according to a report by the Mesa County Sheriff's Office.

The dogs' owner, Christin Ormond, said her dogs — B.B., a 6-month-old black and white spotted male, and Calypso, 1-and-a-half-year-old white and brindle female — had been missing since about midnight Monday. Her husband let the dogs out to go to the bathroom and they jumped the back fence, she said.

"They were the sweetest dogs. They didn't have a mean bone in their bodies," Ormond said Friday. "I'm a CNA (certified nursing assistant). I've been a CNA for 16 years and I've seen some pretty bad stuff. This is probably the worst thing I've ever seen."
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Eye 2

Loathsome: Former Trump Campaign Chair who's a retired Judge arrested for child sex trafficking

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Judge Tim Nolan
Judge Tim Nolan of California, Kentucky represents District 5 on the Campbell County School Board. He served at the chair of the 2016 Donald Trump campaign in Campbell County. And, he's just been charged with felony child trafficking.

Nolan is now facing charges of felony human trafficking of a minor, felony inducing a minor to engage in sex and a third count of giving alcohol to a minor.

As River City News reports: Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear announced that Nolan is charged with human trafficking (a class B felony), first degree unlawful transaction with a minor (a class C felony), and third degree unlawful transaction with a minor (a class A misdemeanor). Beshear's Special Prosecution Division is handling the case. The division is responsible for assisting local prosecutors in complex or sensitive cases, as well as, handle cases in which local prosecutors recuse themselves.
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Footprints

Russian captive flees from Colombia guerrillas by disarming, shooting his abductors


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:54 UTC
Military Police
© Fredy Builes / Reuters
A Russian-Armenian captive has escaped from Colombian guerrilla fighters in a shootout worthy of an action movie. The man disarmed his guard and seriously injured five of the militants, in the process receiving a gunshot wound himself, the rebels say.

The man, identified as Arsen (Levon) Voskanyan, a dual Russian-Armenian citizen, took his rescue operation into his own hands and broke free from Colombia's second largest militia, the National Liberation Army, which is more commonly known by its Spanish acronym, ELN.

At the time of Voskanyan's heroics a convoy was actually on its way to release him at the request of the Russian embassy in Colombia.

Voskanyan seized one of the militants' guns and opened fire at the others, injuring five people. He was wounded by return fire, but managed to hide in the jungle.
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Bullseye

UKIP wants mandatory annual FGM checks on young girls & burka ban


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:01 UTC
Burka ban
© Ahmad Masood / Reuters
UKIP announced plans for a policy of mandatory annual medical checks for schoolgirls in "at-risk minority" groups for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and prosecutions for parents of anyone who has undergone the procedure.

As part of its "integration agenda," UKIP announced mandatory annual FGM checks for girls in schools. It wants to "implement school-based medical checks on girls at high risk of suffering FGM. These should take place annually and whenever they return from trips overseas."

The party is also calling for parents of girls who are subjected to FGM, which is illegal in Britain, to face prosecution.

It pledges to "make failure to report instances of FGM by someone who has knowledge that it has taken place a criminal offence itself" and for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to "operate under a presumption of prosecution any parents whose daughter has undergone FGM."

Comment: See also: Female doctor found mutilating young girls' genitals in Michigan practice

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Eye 2

UK has one of highest rates of anti-Semitic offenses in the world - Israeli watchdog


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:36 UTC
Anti-Semitic
© Andrew Winning / Reuters
The UK has one of the highest rates of anti-Semitic offenses in the world, a new report by an Israel - based watchdog has revealed.

Although the overall number of offenses decreased by 12 percent worldwide, the Annual Report on Antisemitism by the Kantor Center, found that the rate of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK stood at 557 in the first half of 2016, an 11 percent increase on the same period in 2015.

Offenses falling under the Abusive Behavior category accounted for 431 of the total. These include one-off hate mails, anti-Semitic verbal abuse and anti-Semitic graffiti on non-Jewish properties.

The report does not specify what triggered such a spike in anti-Semitic incidents, but it does say that it took place during the months of April, May and June, which saw anti-Semitism, racism and extremism being extensively covered in the media.

Mike Whine of charity the Community Security Trust, who wrote up the UK section of the study, said the increase may be down to anti-Semitism being "a major matter of public discussion in the UK during 2016, fuelled by several public inquiries and the publication of their reports."

Last year, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for party member Shami Chakrabarti to chair an inquiry into allegations of anti-Semitism in the organization.

Comment: See also: Jews may leave Europe if Islamic terrorism, anti-Semitism not stopped, top rabbi warns MEPs

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Bomb

Classroom blast in Dagestan, Russia kills 1 child, injures 11


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:06 UTC
Map of Dagestan
At least one teenager was killed and 11 others injured in a blast in Russia's Republic of Dagestan, where an explosion at a local school was reportedly caused by a grenade brought into the building by one of the students.

At least three of the injured teenagers are in a critical condition, RIA Novosti reported, citing a local hospital.

Dagestan's Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed the numbers of the dead and injured to RT.
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Bad Guys

Syrian mothers forced to watch as 116 children massacred by NATO-backed terrorists

Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:05 UTC
Syria war dead
On April 15th 2017, the people of Kafarya and Foua were attacked, their children mown down deliberately, by a suicide bomb or expolosive detonation, that targeted these innocent children who had been lured to their deaths by NATO and Gulf state terrorists, including Ahrar al Sham and Nusra Front (Al Qaeda). Mothers had to watch from behind the windows of the buses they had been imprisoned in for 48 hours, while strangers, terrorists, picked up their children, their wounded, bleeding, mutilated children, and piled them up in the backs of trucks and Turkish ambulances before driving them away from the horrific scene and stealing them from their distraught, powerless mothers.
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Attention

China's Alibaba billionaire warns of decades of pain and social upheaval


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:54 UTC
Jack Maa
© Ruben Sprich / ReutersAlibaba executive chairman Jack Ma
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has warned people should prepare for decades of social upheaval and pain as the internet disrupts the global economy.

"In the next 30 years, the world's pain will be much greater than its happiness," Ma said at an entrepreneurial conference in Zhengzhou, China. "Social conflicts over the next 30 years will hugely impact every industry."
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