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Another Hindu girl abducted in Pakistan

Yudhvir Rana
Times of India
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:32 UTC

Another Hindu girl was abducted in Pakistan's Sindh province on Monday night, just days after two minor sisters, Reena (15) and Raveena (13), were allegedly kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men on the eve of Holi in the southern province.

There have been seven incidents of abduction and forced conversion of Hindu girls in a little over a month till now in Sindh. Two Hindus were also killed in the same period.

The latest incident involves 16-year-old Mala Kumari Meghwar, who was allegedly kidnapped from her home in Badin district of Sindh on Monday night. A Pakistani Hindu leader, who requested anonymity, claimed the local police had refused to lodge an FIR in the case.

Comment: 7 arrested after Hindu sisters 'kidnapped, converted to Islam & married off' in Pakistan

New Central American-Caribbean caravan of 2500 heads to U.S. border

ROBERT ARCE
Breitbart
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:18 UTC

A newly formed migrant caravan of more than 2,500 departed the southern Mexican border in Chiapas Saturday and is now traveling north for the U.S.

The group formed in Tapachula, Chiapas, over several weeks and is labeled the first Central American-Caribbean caravan since it includes a large number of Cubans.

The caravan departed Saturday morning at approximately 4:30 am. They spent the first night in the town of Huehuetán and later the outskirts of Huixtla. The caravan planned to reach Mapastepec by Monday, which would total approximately 65 miles since their departure on Saturday morning.

According to numbers released by Mexican immigration officials, the caravan consists of 1,199 Hondurans, 764 Salvadorans, 300 Guatemalans, 176 Nicaraguans, and 85 Cubans. Some expect the Cuban cohort to swell to 600 after immigration officials suspended the issuance of one-year humanitarian visas.

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Banned from entry, Austrian reporter sues Ukrainian officials, vows to take issue to 'diplomatic level'

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:04 UTC

A journalist from a leading Austrian broadcaster has filed a legal case against the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) after he was barred from entering the country over border violation and "anti-Ukrainian propaganda."

Christian Wehrschutz, who was banned from entering Ukraine in early March, brought an appeal to the Kiev court on Tuesday.

The journalist was covering events in Ukraine for the major Austrian broadcaster ORF since the US-backed coup in 2014 and reported from the frontlines in the warzone in Eastern Ukraine. As the ban was announced authorities in Kiev dubbed him "a threat to national security" and accused him of border violation and peddling Kremlin propaganda.

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Sprint cell phone tower removed after seven struck with cancer at same California elementary school

ZeroHedge
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:44 UTC

A cellular phone tower is pictured at Weston Elementary School in Ripon, Calif. on Tuesday March 12, 2019.

A Sprint cell phone tower will be removed from a California elementary school after four students and three teachers were diagnosed with cancer.

Weston Elementary School in Ripon, CA went on high alert after the controversy erupted two years ago - with some parents even pulling their children from school over the tower which Sprint has been paying the school $2,000 per month to place on its property.

The Ripon Unified School District initially defended the cell phone tower earlier this month, with board president Kit Oase saying tests done on the tower had found it was operating within safety standards.

Comment: Expect more such tragedies as the even more powerful 5G systems are rolled out.

Fine-tuning the propaganda outlets? Google partners with McClatchy to fund local news sites

Sara Fisher
Axios
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:13 UTC

Google is launching the Local Experiments Project, an effort to fund dozens of new local news websites around the country and eventually around the world. The tech giant says it will have no editorial control over the sites, which will be built by partners it selects with local news expertise.

Comment: Uh-huh.

Why it matters:

Big tech companies like Google and Facebook are often blamed for the demise of the local news business model. Now, both are trying to fix the broken local news ecosystem for the sake of their audiences, which they say crave more local news.

"Everything we do in this space tends to be open-sourced learnings. Our business models are not attached to these efforts. There's no requirement in any of these experiments that the partners use Google advertising tools." - Richard Gingras, VP of news, Google

Comment: While improving the "local news ecosystem" is a laudable goal, Google's track record of overt and covert censorship of information it deems unwelcome is not encouraging. The project will extend the reach of Google's ability to data mine to an even finer level.

Austrian chancellor confirms Christchurch killer sent $1.7k donation to Austrian nationalist group in 2018

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:29 UTC

Austria's leader confirmed Wednesday that authorities have found financial links between the suspected gunman of the recent mosque massacres in New Zealand and a local nationalist group, following a raid on an activist's home.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz added that the Austrian government was looking into dissolving the group, known as the Identitarian Movement of Austria, after domestic intelligence agents seized electronic equipment from the apartment of its leader, Martin Sellner, on Monday.

"Our position on this is very clear, no kind of extremism whatsoever - whether it's radical Islamists or right-wing extremist fanatics - has any place in our society," Kurz said.

The chancellor's comments follow statements from Hansjoerg Bacher, a spokesperson for the Graz prosecutors leading the investigation under anti-terror laws. Bacher confirmed that Sellner's group received 1,500 euros ($1,690) in early 2018 from a donor with the same name as the shooter charged with conducting the Christchurch mosque attacks, which left 50 people dead and scores more injured.

Comment: In potentially related news, a New Zealand man died from a stab wound in a standoff with police, who are investigating whether he may have had any connection with the March 15 Christchurch shootings:

National police commissioner Mike Bush said Christchurch police found several firearms in a search of a local property late Tuesday evening. At about 12.30 a.m. on Wednesday, they located a 54 year-old man sought in relation to the firearms in a stopped vehicle.

Police negotiators spoke with the man over a number of hours and officers approached the vehicle at around 3.40 a.m. Bush said the man was found in the car critically injured with what appeared to be a stab wound. A knife was located in the vehicle.

First aid was applied but the man died at the scene. No firearms were discovered inside the vehicle.

Bad habit: US soldiers injured AGAIN in Poland after military vehicles crash into each other

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:20 UTC

Despite the fact that they were all heading in the same direction, three US military transport vehicles managed to get into a serious accident in which two of them collided, hospitalizing two soldiers.

According to Ewelina Buda, a spokesman for the Poviat police headquarters in nearby Brzesk, the vehicles were headed toward the Hungarian border when things went south. The crash occurred in Lesser Poland, where the country borders neighboring Hungary.

While details are currently limited, military police are trying to figure out exactly how one of the vehicles ended up rear-ending the other, despite the roads being dry and free of any abnormal weather conditions.

They did at least manage to get the cars onto the side of the road, which kept traffic flowing smoothly in spite of the embarrassing wreck that left personnel waiting on the hard shoulder next to their expensive damaged equipment.

As Trump continues to ratchet up NATO's military budget, one crucial sector he might consider is extra driving lessons. Only about a month ago, seven soldiers were injured, two seriously, when a military transport van rolled over in Karliki, Poland.

German minister proposes online surveillance of Islamist children under the age of 14

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:51 UTC

Germany should keep an eye on Islamists' children under the age of 14 who risk being indoctrinated by their parents, the interior minister has suggested, triggering a barrage of criticism against his offbeat proposal.

BfV, the homeland security agency, should be able to accumulate intelligence on children whose parents left Germany and joined Islamist groups in the Middle East, according to a policy paper drafted on behalf of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, which was reported by Die Welt.

Existing laws prohibit storing such data on persons who have not yet reached the age of 14, therefore Seehofer's paper calls for an amendment in order to be prepared for the risk of children returning to the country, potentially plotting terrorist attacks or spreading Islamist ideology.

"According to our experience, more and more children and young people found themselves in the jihadist environment," said Hans-Georg Engelke, the ministry's state secretary. He said there is a "significant number" of minors who are now in Syria and whose German parents are considered a security threat.

Homonationalism? Amherst College's leftist Common Language Guide sparks free speech debate

RT
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:28 UTC

Massachusetts' Amherst College has drawn criticism for publishing a 'language guide' to the latest social justice buzzwords. The ensuing fiasco is the latest battle in the neverending war over free speech on America's campuses.

The college's Office of Diversity circulated a 'Common Language Guide' last week. Flicking through its pages, the guide is an exhaustive list of the latest, politically correct, university-approved terms to describe pretty much everything.

Predictably, much of the guide's pages are devoted to issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality, all covered from the furthest left position possible. From 'Cultural Appropriation' to 'Biological Determinism,' every social justice box is ticked. Did you know that "women cannot be 'just as sexist as men,'" because 'Reverse Oppression' is not real? And when LGBT people's achievements in the military are celebrated, that's a blatant case of 'Homonationalism.'

Measles hysteria grips New York suburb as unvaccinated children get banned from public spaces

Reuters
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:05 UTC

A New York suburb has banned children not vaccinated against measles from public spaces, such as schools and shopping malls, as it fights the state's worst outbreak in decades of the potentially deadly disease.

Rockland County declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and said the ban would remain in place for 30 days or until unvaccinated children get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot.

The Rockland announcement follows measles outbreaks in California, Illinois, Texas and Washington and is part of a global resurgence of the viral infection, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"We will not sit idly by while children in our community are at risk," County Executive Ed Day said in a statement. "This is a public health crisis, and it is time to sound the alarm."

Comment: It'll be interesting to see how officials enforce this ban. Will health officials take up posts at every church and shopping mall in the area asking for vaccination records? This is madness.

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Society's Child

Another Hindu girl abducted in Pakistan

New Central American-Caribbean caravan of 2500 heads to U.S. border

Banned from entry, Austrian reporter sues Ukrainian officials, vows to take issue to 'diplomatic level'

Sprint cell phone tower removed after seven struck with cancer at same California elementary school

Fine-tuning the propaganda outlets? Google partners with McClatchy to fund local news sites

Austrian chancellor confirms Christchurch killer sent $1.7k donation to Austrian nationalist group in 2018

Bad habit: US soldiers injured AGAIN in Poland after military vehicles crash into each other

German minister proposes online surveillance of Islamist children under the age of 14

Homonationalism? Amherst College's leftist Common Language Guide sparks free speech debate

Measles hysteria grips New York suburb as unvaccinated children get banned from public spaces

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