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Detained DACA recipient losing protection under program for being self-admitted gang member


RT
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:47 UTC
ICE deportations
© Charles Reed / ICE / AFP
A 23-year-old illegal immigrant currently being detained may no longer have protection from deportation under the DACA program, as the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement claim he is a "self-admitted gang member."

Daniel Ramirez Medina, who was brought to the US illegally at age 7, was arrested at his home in Des Moines, Washington, on February 10 during an ICE raid targeting his father who was in the country illegally and was a "prior-deported felon."

ICE agents noticed Ramirez' "gang tattoo," according to a Thursday court filing by Jeffrey Robins, assistant director of the US Office of Immigration Litigation. Ramirez was quizzed about the tattoo and gang affiliations, to which he responded that he "fled California to escape from the gangs," but "still hangs out with the Paizas in Washington State," the federal court documents say.

Comment: Complaint filed by 23yo DACA recipient 'unlawfully detained' by ICE

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'Settlers are free to take what they want': Palestinian landowners fear for the worst as land-grab law is passed

Sheren Khalel
Mondoweiss
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 23:00 UTC
Fathy Shebana
© Mondoweiss/Sheren KhalelFathy Shebana, a farmer from Sinjil, told Mondoweiss he and his community fear for their future.
Fathy Shebana's family has lived in Sinjil, a rural village between Ramallah and Nablus for as long as any of them can remember. His family, mostly farmers, has land deeds distributed from the Ottoman era, passed down through generations and split up among sons, daughters and cousins, but always kept in the family.

Today, much of that land is gone — annexed by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank for the use of illegal Israeli settlements. Since Israel passed a new law on February 6, dubbed the Regularization Law, Fathy and his community fear for the future of their land and livelihoods.

The law retroactively legalized at least a dozen settlement outposts built on private Palestinian land, and laid the framework for easily legalizing other outposts in the future.
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Overnight stores installing facial recognition cameras allowing them to deny entry unless you show your face

Chris Hayes
Fox2Now
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:19 UTC
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It's a new high tech tool tackling business robberies: facial recognition cameras. Crimes are so common at many overnight stores that the employees know it's just a matter of time before they get hit.

Former store clerk Erik Steffensen said he'll never forget his robber's words, "Hands up! Empty your registers!" He said his co-worker asked, "Wait, is this real right now?" He said the robber answered, "Oh this is very real."

Steffensen worked overnight to pay for his Mizzou classes by day. After the hold-up, he feared it would happen again as he heard news about more robberies nearby. He remembers telling himself, "So this is happening on my street, that means we're bound to get hit for sure."

It's getting so bad across the country, Atlanta leaders are proposing millions of tax dollars for extra police patrols to combat overnight robberies.

Comment: See also:

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What is the student Left's culture of intolerance creating? A new generation of conservatives

Charlie Peters
The Telegraph
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:54 UTC
Students' campaign march
© Pete Lusabia/Alamy Live NewsStudents' campaign march through Oxford universities for removal of Cecil Rhodes statue. Glum bunch, eh?
Student demands for censorship get a lot of coverage. Spiked Online's Free Speech University Rankings, now in its third annual edition, argues that there is a "crisis of free speech on campus".

By analysing the censorious policies and actions that have taken place on British campuses, Spiked concluded that 63.5 percent of universities actively censor speech and 30.5 percent stifle speech through excessive regulation. You can barely go a few days without encountering a new op-ed covering censorship on campus. Maajid Nawaz describes the students demanding censorship as members of the "regressive left". Milo Yiannopoulos calls them "snowflakes".

With all of this book-burning and platform-denying madness sweeping up much of the media's interest in campus culture, the gradual rise of another group of students has gone under-reported. British and American millennials and post-millennials - also known as 'Gen Z' - are warming to conservatism. To understand why this is happening, it is important to consider the vast changes that have taken place in Western student politics over the last fifty years.

Comment: Students, in particular, are unwilling to be society's child. But, humanity is fickle. Duality, over time, is the universal 'dynamics balancer' of societal extremes.

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New Mexico House overwhelmingly passes bill to decriminalize industrial hemp setting the stage to nullify federal prohibition

Michael Maharrey
Activist Post
Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
new mexico industrial hemp
The New Mexico House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would decriminalize industrial hemp yesterday. Passage into law would set the stage for the people there to nullify federal prohibition on the plant in practice.

Rep. Rick Little (R-Chaparral) introduced House Bill 166 (HB166) on Jan 18. The legislation would simply remove industrial hemp from the state's list of controlled substances. This would open the door for a full-scale commercial hemp market in the state by treating it like any other crop for farming.

HB166 would not require any license to grow hemp, and it would create no state regulatory structure. In short, the state would treat industrial hemp like other plants, such as tomatoes. By ending state prohibition, residents in New Mexico would have an open door to start industrial hemp farming should they be willing to risk violating ongoing federal prohibition.

Comment: Considering the ongoing disaster at Fukushima with the continual outpouring of radiation into the Pacific Ocean, the commercial production of industrial hemp may prove to be highly useful. It has the ability to decontaminate soils from radiation and toxic metals and is considered one of the best phyto-remediative plants available.

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Australia's Catholic church uses secrecy and resistance tactics to prevent sexual abuse victims from seeking compensation


Sputnik
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:28 UTC
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Australia's Catholic Church paid out $213 million to victims of sexual abuse by priests between 1980 and 2015, it has been revealed - although a lawyer investigating Catholic sexual abuse has told Sputnik the true compensation bill will be considerably higher, given the number of victims who have failed to come forward.

On average, victims who came forward with claims received US$70,000 (91,000 Australian dollars) each. Prosecuting barrister Gail Furness said the extent of the abuse was likely to be "much greater" than the claims made. Campaigners believe the true figure could be as high as 10,000.

"Many survivors face barriers which deter them from reporting abuse to authorities and the institution in which the abuse occurred," Furness said.
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By the numbers: As Trump 'electrified the radical right', anti-Muslim groups skyrocketed


RT
Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:27 UTC
trump cartoon
© Horsey/Los Angeles Times
Radical right movements in the US were energized last year unlike any point since the 1960s and made 2016 a "banner year for hate," said the Southern Poverty Law Center, attributing the development to Donald Trump's political ascendancy.

While the overall number of documented hate groups in the US only rose slightly — from 892 in 2015 to 917 last year — Trump's incendiary campaign rhetoric on race, gender, religion, and immigration "electrified the radical right, which saw in him a champion of the idea that America is fundamentally a white man's country," the SPLC said in its annual report, titled The Year in Hate and Extremism and published Wednesday.
Map USA hate groups
© SPLC Center
The 917 hate or extremist groups counted in 2016 by the SPLC falls short of a high of 1,018 in 2011, at the end of President Barack Obama's first term. However, "the numbers undoubtedly understate the real level of organized hatred in America" that received a boost in mainstream politics through Trump's rise to the White House, wrote SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok.
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"Arrest and recovery" program in Texas jails child sex trafficking victims

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:50 UTC
sex trafficking
© Mimi Chakarova
The Free Thought Project has observed a disturbing trend in law enforcement. We've known for years the police have locked up innocent people, who get caught up in a police dragnet. But the latest practice by law enforcement crosses so many ethical boundaries it's unfathomable the good people of Texas are allowing it to take place on their watch. They're now jailing sex trafficking victims because they have no place to put them.

According to the Texas Tribune, many of them are minors — like Lena (17) who never found herself on the wrong side of the law. She was rescued from sex traffickers. But that's when another imprisonment occurred for her. In the fall of 2016, after police helped rescue her from her traffickers, she was booked into the county jail.

"The 17-year-old lived with two dozen women in a single room. She slept on a metal bunk and wore an oversized orange jumpsuit every day. She went to the bathroom with no privacy, using a toilet attached to the wall," the Tribune writes.

Having endured a troubled life, an abusive adoptive mom, several foster homes, only to end up running away from home, Lena found herself as the property of pimps who exploited her need for the love of a father.
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Man charged in plotting to bomb Target stores so he could buy cheap stock


RT
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:40 UTC
Target storews bomb plot
© Mike Blake / Reuters
A Florida man has been charged by the Justice Department with a plot to bomb Target stores along the East Coast, and then buy cheap stock after the company stock price plummeted.

Mark Charles Barnett, 48, was charged with making explosive devices, hiring a man to plant them, and attempting to blow up Target stores. The federal complaint alleges the former convicted felon concocted a plan to disguise the bombs as food items and placing them in stores along the East Coast of the US, from New York to Florida.

Barnett has been charged with "possession of a firearm (destructive device) affecting commerce by a previously convicted felon," according to the US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida.
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Tragic fate of two young Yazidi brothers forced to be suicide bombers by Daesh


Sputnik
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:27 UTC
Members of Yazidi minority search for clues on February 3, 2015, that might lead them to missing relatives in the remains of people killed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group
© AFP 2016/ Safin HamedMembers of Yazidi minority search for clues on February 3, 2015, that might lead them to missing relatives in the remains of people killed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group
The two brothers aged 15 and 16 were taken prisoner during an attack on Sinjar in August 2014 by Daesh terrorists.

In the video footage they first say that they are going to blow themselves up and then one of them commits an attack in the west of Mosul whereas, the other in the district of Tal Afar east of Mosul.

The head of the Department of the Ministry of Yazidis and Iraqi Kurdistan Hayri Bozani told Sputnik Turkey that Daesh terrorists abduct Yazidi children and then convert them into suicide bombers by exposing them to different sorts of training.

"There are more than 1,000 Yazidi children in the hands of the terrorists right now. First of all, the jihadists convert them to Islam. Then the children are taught the basics of Shariah and are prepared to carry out terrorist attacks as suicide bombers," Bozani said.

He further said that it is currently unknown how many Yazidi children have been used as suicide bombers, but it is known that there are more than 100 children undergoing training to commit terrorist acts right now.

Comment: See also: Freed Yazidi woman tells shocking story of sexual slavery under Daesh

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