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DOJ slams 'sanctuary' city Philadelphia for giving 'free pass' to criminal immigrants, including child rapist

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:06 UTC
ICE officer
The Trump administration is taking aim at Philadelphia's political leaders for a string of crimes committed by immigrants the city released in defiance of Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests.

The Justice Department this week highlighted the case of child rapist Juan Ramon Vasquez, who just pleaded guilty to illegal re-entry.

The illegal immigrant from Honduras previously was in Philadelphia custody on local charges back in 2014. But when those charges were dropped a year later, city officials ignored an ICE detainer. Vasquez was later arrested and convicted for raping a child and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.

He is now serving between eight and 20 years in prison.

"The facts of this case highlight the danger posed by the City of Philadelphia's decision to disregard ICE detainers and release previously deported aliens from local custody," U.S. Attorney William McSwain said in a statement, accusing Philadelphia of giving Vasquez a "free pass."
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Wine n Glass

Keeping it classy: Drunken foursome brawls in front of Bradford, UK pub


Sputnik
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 15:56 UTC
Bradford street brawl
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Mixing alcohol and hot weather does seem like a good idea to some pub-crawlers. A vicious street brawl in Bradford's city center was caught on camera; four people who were apparently three sheets to the wind beat each other as onlookers laughed and cheered.

A video has emerged online of a brutal alcohol-induced fight between three women and a man in the center of Bradford, West Yorkshire. The three-minute mobile phone clip is believed to have been filmed outside The Turls Green, a Wetherspoon pub.

The video beings with a woman in a beige dress lying face down on the ground. A man in a black T-shirt can be seen walking in his socks to pick up his shoe, which is lying next to her.

The woman tries to follow him, but she fails to stand up and falls over again, and is cheered on by the crowd.
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Info

Thousands of Chinese Muslims join in protest against govt plans to demolish mosque

Samuel Osborne
Independent, UK
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:33 UTC
weizhou mosque
Thousands of ethnic Hui Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China to protest its planned demolition in a rare demonstration against the government.

The Grand Mosque in the town of Weizhou in Ningxia, which has numerous domes and minarets in a Middle Eastern style, did not receive proper permits before construction, officials in the town said in a notice on 3 August.

It would be forcibly demolished on Friday, they added in the note, which was widely circulated among Chinese Muslims on social media.

The protest on Friday comes as faith groups, which were largely tolerated in the past, have seen their freedoms reduced as the government seeks to "Sinicise" religions by making the faithful prioritise allegiance to the officially atheist ruling Communist Party.

Islamic crescents and domes have been stripped from mosques, Christian churches shut down and bibles seized, and Tibetan children have been moved from Buddhist temples to schools.
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Bullseye

John Whitehead: If Americans can't agree to disagree, censorship won't stop until we are ALL silenced

John Whitehead
Free Thought Project
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 15:46 UTC
Americans are begging to be censored by continuing to call for their political, religious, or societal adversaries to be silenced. We must agree to disagree before it's too late.
free speech
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." ― Benjamin Franklin
What a mess.

As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to-or even allow for the existence of-other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along.

Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along-at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other's right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different-then we're going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals).

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The Truth Perspective: The Affirmative Action Brigade: How Identity Politics Is Destroying Western Militaries

Harrison Koehli and Elan Martin
Sott.net
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 16:00 UTC
woman sniper
Traditionally a male institution, the last decades have seen the rise of policies that push for equal inclusion of women in all areas of military service. But they're not working, for some strange reason. Men still dominate militaries all over the world, including in western democracies. This has led to charges of systemic discrimination, misogyny and toxic masculinity. But no worry, the gender activists have the solution: affirmative action, including special woman-only incentives to attract them into the military.

But will these additional policies work? Or will they only result in a more 'toxic' military atmosphere? Are the ideals of 'diversity, inclusivity, and equity' compatible with the purpose of a military as an effective fighting force, or are they mutually exclusive? Today on the Truth Perspective we look at recent developments of gender politics in the military, with Australia as a case study and ask the question: are such policies making the military a better institution, or just making it weak?

Running Time: 01:24:57

Download: MP3

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Oil Well

Canadian oil producers suffering steep price declines, reflecting shortage of pipeline capacity


RT
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 09:18 UTC
Canada oil drilling
© Larry Macdougal / Global Look Press
Canadian oil producers are once again suffering from a steep discount for their oil, causing the largest spread between Canadian oil and WTI in years.

Western Canada Select (WCS) recently fell below $40 per barrel, dropping to as low as $38 per barrel on Tuesday. That put it roughly $31 per barrel below WTI, the largest discount since 2013.

The sharp decline in WCS prices is a reflection of a shortage of pipeline capacity. Much of the talk about pipeline bottlenecks these days focuses on the Permian basin, and the unfolding slowdown in shale drilling, which could curtail U.S. oil production growth. But Canada's oil industry was contending with an inability to build new pipeline infrastructure long before Texas shale drillers.

However, the problem has grown more acute over the last 12 months. Even as pipeline takeaway capacity hasn't budged, Canadian oil production continues to rise. Output could jump by around 230,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2018, followed by another 265,000-bpd increase in 2019, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Bad Guys

On Russians, warmongers, election meddling, and when turnabout is fair play

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:41 UTC
Russian American US flags
I want to offer NEO readers a revelation today. As an American, a human being, or as a geopolitical analyst, I have no problem whatsoever with Russia meddling in the U.S. or any other elections. Even if the allegations are true, my Mamma always told me "turnabout is fair play." And in this, I firmly believe. Here's a "fair play" look at why every decent American should just toughen up on RussiaGate.

First, let me say that I have no indication that ANY Russian official had ANYTHING to do with the American elections other than rooting for this politician as opposed to another. Now that this is settled, I want to present a series of proofs that the United States has meddled in just about every election on Earth. Let's start with Moldova in 2005.

Comment: A short list:

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TV

Huffy Dem candidate Ocasio-Cortez refuses 'catcalling' debate offer from Ben Shapiro


RT
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:06 UTC
Ben Shapiro and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
© Wikimedia / Flickr / Wikipedia
Ben Shapiro and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has declined Ben Shapiro's challenge to debate him for $10,000, likening the conservative host's offer to catcalling.

"Just like catcalling, I don't owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Thursday. "And also like catcalling, for some reason they feel entitled to one."

Comment: If Ocasio-Cortez had real confidence in the soundness of her ideology, she would welcome Shapiro's offer. Why turn down free campaign publicity and a possible hefty donation to boot?

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Cow Skull

Future Darwin award recipients: NYC teens film themselves riding atop subway cars


The Smoking Gun
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
NYC teens riding subway trains
A trio of New York City daredevils--surely soon to be in the custody of the NYPD--filmed themselves riding atop a series of subway cars as trains barreled through Brooklyn and Queens.

In videos posted to YouTube over the past three weeks, the train surfers are seen running, action movie-style, from car to car.

In a clip posted July 14, the surfers hop onto the roof of a subway car from an overhang at the aboveground Avenue H station in Brooklyn. At one point, the future defendants have to quickly duck down to avoid being decapitated by an overpass.

Comment: Proving once again that the selfie-obsessed will attempt anything for a few moments of notoriety. Looks like these young men could use an introduction to Jordan Peterson.

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Evil Rays

A boon for Republicans? Pelosi viewed by many as a 'drag' on the Democratic party

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
nancy pelosi
Most of America is not impressed with sexually perverse or aberrant people. Even though the elitist liberal entertainment media and especially West Coast liberal enclaves would have us believe that everybody thinks this perversity is to be lauded (so we should too), this is not true. However, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is not aware of that.

Perhaps this is a good thing for Republicans.

The SFGate.com website, home of the SFGate news and Chronicle publications of San Francisco, heralded Nancy Pelosi's appearance at a drag queen contest as a significant political event, especially when Mrs. Pelosi, who claims to be Roman Catholic, threw slop all over her faith by both being a judge at this event, and by comparing the success of politicians to that of these men who dress as women and who are often sexually deranged.
After appearing on an episode of "RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that politicians could learn a thing or two from drag queens.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter about her appearance on the show Thursday night, Pelosi said, "This idea of people believing in themselves, being themselves, taking pride in themselves, is not just a lesson for politicians but for everyone in the country. And that's why I was so excited and couldn't resist being on the show."

Comment: Pelosi, cocooned in her liberal coastal bubble is completely out of touch with reality. She is one of the many factors driving the #WalkAway movement:

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