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UK Home Office employee confronted by 'pedophile-hunters' for allegedly grooming 12-year-old girl

Gary Hodgkiss

Gary Hodgkiss, 48, pictured, is a Home Office official who works as an IT consultant for Border Force who was confronted by paedophile hunters after allegedly trying to meet a 12-year-old
A Home Office IT consultant has been arrested after being confronted by a group of vigilante 'pedophile hunters' who accused him of attempting to meet up with a 12-year-old girl.

The confrontation with the married father was recorded on Wednesday evening at an undisclosed location in Manchester. It was streamed live on Facebook, garnering more than 42,000 views in just half an hour.

The man was told by the group - known as Dark Light - that they had evidence he had communicated with three underage girls.

Comment: This story comes on the heels of: Two former Tory mayors found guilty of multiple counts of child rape in just 48 hours

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Greyhound finds itself in the middle of illegal immigration uproar

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© Maria Sacchetti
He was a 12-year Miami resident originally from Trinidad, taken off a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by U.S. Border Patrol agents in January.

She was a 60-something Jamaican national who had just met her granddaughter for the first time, whose Greyhound was stopped by Border Patrol. She was arrested and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

And on the other side of the country, they were an undocumented father and son riding a Greyhound from Seattle to Montana when agents came aboard and asked, "Are you illegal?" "Do you have your documents?" The son, a DACA recipient traveling without his papers, was held for a few hours. The father was sent to a detention center.

Family

US midterm elections have unprecedented focus on sitting president

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A new survey highlights how much the national, partisan contest now outweighs local issues in voters' choice for Congress...

With about 4 1/2 months to go until a midterm election that will determine whether Democrats gain power to check President Donald Trump, voter interest in the contest has reached historic highs, with far more intense focus than usual on one subject: the president.

Midterm elections often act as a referendum on whoever occupies the White House, but in most election years, many voters don't view their ballot that way. This year, they do: Some 60 percent say they view their midterm vote as a ballot essentially against (34 percent) or for (26 percent) Trump, according to a newly released survey from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. That makes Trump a bigger factor in the midterm than any president since Pew first asked the question during President Ronald Reagan's first term.

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The focus on being victimized by racism makes black Americans blind to real problems

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For several decades, a few black scholars have been suggesting that the vision held by many black Americans is entirely wrong. Dr. Shelby Steele, a scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, said: "Instead of admitting that racism has declined, we (blacks) argue all the harder that it is still alive and more insidious than ever. We hold race up to shield us from what we do not want to see in ourselves."

Dr. John McWhorter, professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, lamented that "victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism underlie the general black community's response to all race-related issues," adding that "these three thought patterns impede black advancement much more than racism; and dysfunctional inner cities, corporate glass ceilings, and black educational underachievement will persist until such thinking disappears."

In the 1990s, Harvard professor Orlando Patterson wrote, "America, while still flawed in its race relations ... is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or black; (and) offers more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa."

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Television series alleges that serial killer Kelly Cochran fed human remains to friends at barbecue

Kelly Cochran
© Michigan Department of Corrections
Kelly Cochran, 36, pleaded guilty to the murder of her former lover and husband. She is serving life in prison plus 65 years
If you've ever seen the end of the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes," then you have an idea of what may have happened to a Michigan man in 2014.

In a new television documentary, authorities allege that a serial killer and her husband chopped up and killed her former lover and then served his remains at a neighborhood barbecue in 2014, WJBK-TV (Channel 2) reports. Kelly Cochran later injected her husband with a lethal dose of heroin in February 2016.

The docuseries on Investigation Discovery called "Dead North" takes the viewer on a journey that might just leave a bad taste in their mouth.

Snakes in Suits

Jeff Bezos net worth hits $140B as his WaPo employees revolt over poor working conditions and low pay

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Washington Post employees are revolting over "shocking pay practices" at the newspaper, as they petition Amazon CEO and WaPo owner Jeff Bezos to "share the wealth"...of which today stands at $140 Billion.

Over 400 Washington Post employees have signed a public petition addressed to Jeff Bezos begging him to improve working conditions and poor pay at the iconic newspaper.

The petition follows over a year of unsuccessful negotiations with upper management.


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Russian Supreme Court experts recommend liberalizing laws for political rallies

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Authorities cannot deny requests for rallies on grounds that the events might bring inconvenience to local residents or when another event is held in the same place at the same time, according to Russian Supreme Court experts.

The draft verdict of the Supreme Court Plenum - the full assembly of judges that is being called for making important decisions that could potentially affect many cases - said that the possibility of inconvenience for citizens, who are not participating in the planned events, cannot be used by local authorities as a reason to deny a license for the event to organizers. Experts who prepared the document noted that the principle applies even when temporary changes to public transport routes are needed.

In addition, the Supreme Court experts opposed the practice of punishing organizers of street events in cases where the actual number of participants exceeds the one mentioned in the license issued by the authorities, saying that such punishment should take place only if the overcrowding creates a real threat to citizens' security.

Pirates

Antifa spreads doxed list of ICE agents compiled by NYU professor

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The person who initially compiled the database is an NYU professor. The list has been picked up and spread by left-wing activists amid fierce debates over the hardline US immigration policy and ongoing family separations at the country's southern border.

The Twitter account "nebraska antifa" posted a link to a list of employees of the US' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including their phone numbers and locations. As the original post was deleted shortly thereafter, Sam Lavigne, the user who had doxed the ICE agents, tweeted a link to an archived post, giving access to the original database.

Fire

Fanatic barbarians: Israeli settlers celebrate burning Palestinian baby, chant "Ali is on the grill!"

Hussein Dawabshe

Hussein Dawabshe, with his grandson Ahmad, in 2016.
There's something particularly disturbing about celebrating the burning alive of a baby.

This is precisely what Israeli Jewish settlers were doing yesterday, outside the court in Lod. "'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill!", they chanted, in reference to the 18-month old baby Ali Dawbsheh, who was burnt alive by Jewish terrorists in the West Bank town of Duma in 2015. Ali's mother Riham and father Saad died of their wounds a few weeks later. Of the family of four, only 5-year-old Ahmad survived the arson with severe burns.

The terror-supporters were actually taunting Ali's grandfather, Hussein Dawabshe, who was attending a preliminary hearing at which the court decided to indict one adult suspect who confessed to the murders, as well as a minor who was an accomplice. Hussein was accompanied by Palestinian-Israeli lawmakers Ayman Odeh and Ahmed Tibi. Tibi posted the video of the chanting, with policemen standing by doing nothing, and wrote:
"Where's Ali? There's no Ali. Ali is burned. On the fire. Ali is on the grill" - all this was thrown at our face - including at the grandfather Dawbsheh concerning his 18-month-old grandson by the riff raff of 'price tag'. In front of us stood policemen and officers and did nothing. No words...
The terror supporters also referred to the other family members: "Where is Ali? Where is Riham? Where is Saad? It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well."


Comment: There's a lot said about radical Muslims and their incompatibility with Western culture. Well, the same goes for these Jewish fanatics. Identity politics will do that.


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Palestinian teen loses eyesight due to Israeli prison neglect

Palestinian teenager Hassan Abdulkhaleq Mizher Tamimi

Palestinian teenager Hassan Abdulkhaleq Mizher Tamimi
Palestinian teenager Hassan Abdulkhaleq Mizher Tamimi lost his eyesight after he was subjected to life-threatening medical neglect by Israeli prison authorities.

Tamimi, 18, has a serious medical condition in his liver and kidneys, which makes him unable to absorb protein. He requires a strict vegetarian diet, medicines and periodic tests at the hospital.

Israeli authorities provided him with none of that since his arrest more than two months ago, and his medical condition deteriorated sharply until he slipped into a coma. It was only then that he was finally transferred from the Ofer prison clinic to Shaare Zedek medical center on 28 May.

Pictures of Tamimi circulated on social media after he awoke from his coma: