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California fashion industry hits Ivanka Trump with major class action lawsuit

Ivanka Trump
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Ivanka Trump's company is being sued for allegedly exploiting her father's position to reap "unfair benefits and illegal profits" in a class action lawsuit launched in California that raises further questions about the Trumps' conflicts of interests.

San Francisco company Modern Appeals Clothing says Ivanka's company, Ivanka Trump Marks, has an "unfair advantage" due to her White House connections. It calls for restraining orders to prevent the brand from competing unfairly in California.

"President Donald J. Trump and his individual and White House employees and agents have, since the election, promoted defendant Ivanka Trump's brand by exploiting the power and prestige of the White House," the suit reads.

The suit maintains Ivanka's company's sales have jumped more than 300 percent in January and February compared to the previous year. It calls for Ivanka's line to be barred in California.

Comment: While Ivanka's company is not correct in leveraging Trump's success for corporate profits, hasn't the embittered competition realized by now that suing her only further galvanizes people to financially support Ivanka's businesses?

See also: Mean spirited: Petition asks first lady Melania Trump to leave New York


Arrow Down

Child sex offenses in Manchester have increased fourfold in 3 years, creating a 5 month backlog for police

hacker with laptop
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Child sex offenses reported in Greater Manchester have increased fourfold in three years, a new study says. The workload for police is reportedly so large they are facing a backlog of up to five months to analyze computers linked to suspected pedophiles.

The report, 'Real Voices, Are They Being Heard?', presented by Labour MP Ann Coffey, assesses improvements in protecting young people after nine men were jailed in 2012 for running a child sex exploitation ring in Greater Manchester.

Comment: Behind the Headlines: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter


Robot

Roving robots bringing meals to customers in Washington DC

Postmates robot
© AP/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisPostmates robot
Some hungry customers in the nation's capital may be surprised to discover a robot is delivering their pastrami on rye.

The delivery service Postmates is using knee-high, six-wheeled robots to bring food to customers. The robots can travel up to 4 mph and use sensors and cameras to navigate sidewalks and cross the street. Initially, the robots will be accompanied by a person, but eventually their progress will be monitored remotely.

Postmates says it's the first service of its kind in the United States.

Customers put their orders in online and once the robot arrives, they get a text with a code to unlock it and grab their food.

Postmates already uses human couriers to deliver food and goods in scores of cities. The robots are made by Starship Technologies.

Bad Guys

Mother of murdered Palestinian shot dead during alleged attempt to stab Israeli police

Alleged attempted stabbing in Jerusalem
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A 49-year-old Palestinian woman was killed outside Jerusalem's Old City after she attempted to attack an Israeli Border Police patrol with scissors. The attacker lost one of her sons last year when he was shot dead by the same police force in controversial circumstances.

"Police responded to a life-threatening situation and the female terrorist was shot dead at the scene," said Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld in a recorded statement. "The terrorist was treated at the scene by Magen David Adom paramedics before being transferred to an area hospital, where she later died. The officer was not wounded in the attack, and the area has been secured."

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the woman as 48-year-old Siham Ratib Nimr, mother of 11, including Mustafa Nimr, killed in September 2016. A source in her Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem told Ynet news that Nimr had been "depressed" following the death of her child, and might have planned the attack in revenge.

Mustafa Nimr was driven by his cousin Ali, speeding through their Arab-speaking neighborhood when an Israeli Border Police patrol warned them to stop and opened fire when they refused. The barrage smashed the windshield and killed Mustafa instantly, wounding Ali.


People

"American Psycho" author blasts Hollywood snowflakes for 'childish meltdowns' over Trump

Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, would like for all of his Hollywood snowflake friends to know that he's absolutely sick of their unending "childish meltdowns" over Trump's victory nearly five months ago and he would very much appreciate it if you would stop ruining every single dinner he goes to with you.

In a new podcast(embedded below), Ellis goes on an epic 35-minute, anti-snowflake, anti-hollywood rant that is pure entertainment. And Ellis didn't pull any punches either as he took direct aim at the public meltdowns of Barbara Streisand and Lena Dunham telling them to stop "blaming the president for your own problems and neuroses."
"You can dislike the fact that Trump was elected, yes, definitely, and yet still understand and accept ultimately that he was elected this time around. Or you can have a complete mental and emotional collapse and let the Trump presidency define you, which I think is absurd. ... If you are still losing your s— about Trump, I think you should probably go to a shrink and not let the bad man that was elected define your self-victimization and your life. You are letting him win."

"Barbra Streisand says she's gaining weight because of Trump. Lena Dunham says she's losing weight because of Trump. Really? You're blaming the president for your own problems and neuroses?"

Info

Judge Napolitano returns on Fox News, stands by claim Brits spied on Trump

Andrew
Fox News' legal analyst Andrew "Judge" Napolitano returned to the air on Wednesday morning, nine days after the network benched him when President Donald Trump cited the Fox talking head as the source of claims that Barack Obama used British intelligence to wiretap him. Napolitano refused to change his story saying he stood by his claim about spying on President Donald Trump that got him benched by the network on March 21 for an indefinite period.

"I stand by my statement on surveillance," Napolitano told Bill Hemmer.

Pistol

Nephew of killed Chinese man says 'French police arrived, broke door and pulled trigger'

A man hold a Chinese flag during a protes
© Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt / AFPA man hold a Chinese flag during a protest in front of the police headquarters in the 19th arrondissement of Paris on March 28, 2017
Paris' Asian community is demanding an explanation for the unjustified brutality it has been subject to at the hands of French police, as well as the truth about why officers recently killed a Chinese man in France's capital, the victim's nephew said.

"You have the violence of the police that strikes our Asian community. I have no idea about the reason, but we are here to demand an explanation," Lulu Zheng, the nephew of Shaoyo Liu, who was shot dead by police on Sunday, told RT's Ruptly news video agency on Tuesday.

The officers were called to Shaoyo Liu's home on Sunday following a family argument and eventually ended up killing the Chinese father of five.

Heart - Black

Mean spirited: Petition asks first lady Melania Trump to leave New York

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More than 230,000 people have signed a Change.org petition to force the first lady to leave Manhattan, where her 11-year-old child is finishing his school year - or have the first family pay for their protection by the Secret Service and law enforcement.

The petition, started two weeks ago by a man named Doug Caruana, has gained massive traction in the past few days, gaining nearly 100,000 signatures in the 24 hours from Tuesday to Wednesday.
"The US taxpayer is paying an exorbitant amount of money to protect the First Lady in Trump Tower, located in New York City," the petition states. "As to help relieve the national debt, this expense yields no positive results for the nation and should be cut from being funded."

Comment: No concern how much it cost the US taxpayer to destroy, maim, or kill people of sovereign countries (with no positive results).


Light Saber

Family of Emmett Till seeks justice in meeting with Jeff Sessions

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© Scott Olson / Agence France-Presse The burial vault containing the remains of Emmett Till is lowered onto a flatbed truck at Burr Oak Cemetery 01 June 2005 in Alsip, Illinois.
The family of Emmett Till met with the US attorney general seeking a conviction, and the truth, over what happened to their cousin, who was brutally murdered as a teenager 61 years ago in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.

Till's cousin, Deborah Watts, and Alvin Sykes, a member of the Emmett Till Justice Campaign, met with the head of the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions, on Tuesday.

Till's 1955 murder made international news and directed attention to the lack of rights of black population in the American South.

As well as seeking justice for her murdered cousin and Carolyn Bryant Donham's role, who made the allegation over his whistling, Watts also sought support for the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.

Light Sabers

'Time for empowering women... is now': Melania Trump honors activists from around the world

Melania Trump
© ReutersFirst lady Melania Trump presents Veronica Simon of Papua New Guinea with the 2017 Secretary of State’s IWOC Award during a ceremony at the State Department in Washington, U.S., March 29, 2017.
First Lady Melania Trump made a rare public appearance to present 13 women with the 2017 Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award. The prize honors those who fight for women's empowerment, often at great personal risk.

"Together, we must declare that the era of allowing the brutality against women and children is over while affirming that the time for empowering women around the world is now," Trump said.

"For wherever women are diminished, the entire world is diminished with them. However, wherever women are empowered, towns and villages, schools and economies are empowered, and together we are all made stronger with them," she continued. The remark echoed then-First Lady Hillary Clinton's 1995 speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, in which she said that "women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights."