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Discovery of police corruption freed dozens from US prisons in 2017

Scott Shackford
Reason
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:15 UTC
Shackled man in prison
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Government misconduct a big driver of exonerations last year

In 2017, 84 Americans were freed from prison after revelations of government misconduct helped prove them innocent. That sets a record, according to an annual report on exonerations in America.

It's actually only part of the picture. An additional 96 defendants in Chicago and Baltimore were released last year in "group exonerations" as a result of two very high-profile police corruption cases.

The details are part of the National Registry of Exonerations' annual report, a project by the University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science and Society, the University of Michigan Law School, and the Michigan State University College of Law. All in all, 139 exonerations were added to their registry for 2017, a drop from 171 in 2016. Though the total number of exonerations came down, a record number of people were exonerated due to official misconduct, mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, and perjury or false accusations.
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Britain's ultimatum to Russia gets no backup - NATO and EU allies reject demands for action on Skripal

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:15 UTC
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British diplomacy fails to unite West in strong action against Russia

Donald Trump's latest tweets saying that the US should aim for better relations with Russia underscores a crucial point about the Skripal case: the British are failing to win the support of their allies that they seem to have expected.

At this point it is necessary to say something about the British diplomatic strategy last week,

On Monday 12th March 2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May gave Russia a 36 hour ultimatum saying that unless it proved itself innocent the British government would deem it guilty of the attack on Sergey and Yulia Skripal

Here is what Theresa May said to the British House of Commons on 12th March 2018:

Comment: Britain's big gamble on the likely false flag they have perpetrated has only undermined their position as a 'great power' even more.

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Free speech battle: SJWs shut down Faith Goldy talk at Canadian university

Lindsay Shepherd
Maclean's
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:32 UTC
Faith Goldy
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Faith Goldy, who was supposed to speak at Wilfrid Laurier University but was interrupted by a fire alarm, speaks outside the university on Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Hanging from a nearby building was a big white sheet with ominous black paint that read "Laurier enables white supremacy." About 100 demonstrators carried signs that asserted "No Nazis at Laurier", "Not on my campus", "Against neo-Nazism" and "Your definition of freedom of speech is hate speech."

"Hey hey! Ho ho! White supremacy's got to go!" the gender-ambiguous speaker yelled into the microphone.

A little later I would be given two pieces of paper with a scribbled "F-k Nazis", and someone would try to forcefully hand me a makeshift Ku Klux Klan robe.

I looked around the protest to see many familiar faces, such as professor Greg Bird, who had tweeted earlier in the day that free speech is a "ruse", asking: "Is @Laurier a university or a Nazi recruitment centre?"
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Nevada student suspended for swearing during phone call to Congressman

Beth Baumann
Townhall
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:38 UTC
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Last week, 17-year-old Noah Christiansen decided to partake in the national walkout, along with other students across the nation, to call for gun control.

Christiansen used that time to call the office of his Congressman, Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) to urge him to vote for gun control legislation. The student spoke with one of Amodei's staff members about the need for stricter gun control laws. During the conversation, Christiansen allowed a curse word to drop.

He said Congress needed to "get off their [expletive] asses" and act to prevent further gun violence, the Los Angeles Times reported.

A few hours after the conversation, Christiansen learned he had been suspended for two days. The reasoning? Amodei's staffer called the school to let them know about the conservation that transpired.

The Robert McQueen High School junior was suspended for two days "for being disrespectful and insubordinate." He was also removed from his position as secretary/treasurer for the school's student body government.
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Ridiculous: Tennessee has fined residents almost $100,000 for braiding hair since 2009

Deborah Cassens Weiss
ABA Journal
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:30 UTC
Fatau Diouf
© Institute for Justice
Fatou Diouf at work in her shop in Tennessee.
Hair braiders without a "natural hair stylist" license in Tennessee can be punished with a civil penalty of $1,000 for each instance of unlicensed work.

The fines add up. According to a review by the Institute for Justice, the state imposed $100,000 in fines against dozens of braiders and more than 30 natural hair shops since 2009. A communications associate for the group highlighted the findings in an article for Forbes.

Among those fined is Fatou Diouf, who was required to pay $16,000 for employing workers without the required stylist's license, even though her shop is licensed. A payment plan for her most recent violations requires Diouf to pay $830 a month toward the fine.
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Fake child refugee convicted of brutal rape and murder of German medical student


Westmonster
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:25 UTC
refugee murderer rapist
A man who posed as an Afghan child refugee has been convicted of the horrific rape and murder of a German medical student - the victim's father is Clemens Ladenburger, who was a lawyer for the European Commission.

The killer, Hussein K, was actually convicted of assaulting a woman in Corfu in 2013...so how on earth was he allowed to enter Germany and rape and kill a vulnerable young girl? Well, EU open borders of course.

He was sentenced to 10 years in jail in Greece for the attempted murder of a woman but released just 1 year into a 10 year sentence due to 'overcrowding'. Now he's been given a life sentence in Germany for his attack in Freiburg.

Hussein told German officials he was 17, from Afghanistan and his father was killed fighting the Taliban. Actually, he could well be in his 30s, he's from Iran and, you guessed it, his dad's still alive.
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'Not near our kids': Wealthy Californians fight temporary homeless shelters in their area


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:15 UTC
homeless camp
© Mike Blake / Reuters
A homeless encampment in Anaheim, California.
Three cities in affluent Orange County, California are suing over proposals to set up temporary homeless shelters in their area. California has the largest homeless population in the US and the plans have residents fearful.

"This freaks me out. I moved to O.C. because I thought it would be a safe place. Now it's getting more and more like L.A.," Rob Howard, an office manager in Irvine, told the LA Times. "Who wants tons of traffic, high prices and all kinds of unwanted people around you?"

As part of the $70 million plan temporary camps full of tents would be set up for homeless people in Irvine, Laguna Niguel, and on a former landfill in Huntington Beach. Homes in these districts are among the priciest in the county. Irvine City and Laguna Niguel councils voted on Tuesday to sue the county and put a halt to the proposal.
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From 'hero' to terrorist: Savchenko arrested in Ukrainian parliament for plotting terrorist attack and coup


RT
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:04 UTC
Nadiya Savchenko
© Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters
Ukrainian parliamentary deputy Nadiya Savchenko attends a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, March 15, 2018.
Ukrainian MP Nadezhda Savchenko, once glorified as a Ukrainian "hero" persecuted by Moscow, has been detained again - this time by her fellow countrymen. The former pilot is now suspected of plotting a coup and a terrorist attack.

Savchenko was arrested by Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officers right in the building of the Verkhovnaya Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) on Thursday. Moments before that, the MPs stripped Savchenko of her legal immunity that allows Ukrainian MPs to enjoy protection from prosecution and agreed to her arrest.

The lawmakers were shown a video obtained by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office that allegedly shows Savchenko discussing details of a coup plot with her accomplices. According to the video, the MP even planned to assassinate Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. She is suspected of plotting a terrorist attack, planning to kill members of parliament, government, and the president, and organizing a coup.
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Israeli teen arrested & fined for urinating on Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:57 UTC
Auschwitz-Birkenau museum
© Reuters
The gates of the former Nazi German concentration camp.
An Israeli teenager was reportedly arrested at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum for urinating on a victims' memorial in the former Nazi concentration camp. The unidentified 19-year-old was taken into custody on Wednesday.

At around 1pm local time the student, who was part of a visiting tour, was spotted by a guide at the former death camp urinating on the steps of a monument. He was subsequently detained and questioned by police before paying a fine of more than €1,100 for the act, according to TVP Polonia.

Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp built by Germany's Nazi Party as part of their effort to exterminate prisoners following the outbreak of World War II. The network of camps was a major cog in the Holocaust and Hitler's plan to murder Jews.
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Lawsuits piling up as #DeleteFacebook movement gains traction

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:02 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg
© Getty Images
After shaving more than $20 off its share price earlier this week, Facebook stock moved back into the green Wednesday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he would publicly address the company's relationship with Cambridge Analytica some time during the next 24 hours.

At the same time, another lawsuit has been brought against the company, the second since the New York Times and the Observer reported over the weekend that the company had failed to stop CA from using data improperly gathered from tens of millions of users, a Maryland woman sued Facebook Tuesday in a San Jose, Calif. court. Her suit was filed on behalf of other Facebook users whose data were accessed by CA without their explicit permission, Bloomberg reported.
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