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Illegal immigrant charged with killing 11 elderly women in Texas

David Warren
AP
Thu, 16 May 2019 15:12 UTC
Billy Chemirmir

Billy Chemirmir
A Dallas man previously arrested in the death of an 81-year-old woman has been charged with killing at least 11 more elderly women whose jewelry and other valuables he stole, authorities said Thursday.

Kim Leach, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County district attorney's office, said 46-year-old Billy Chemirmir was indicted Tuesday on six more counts of capital murder in the deaths of women ranging in age from 76 to 94.

Chemirmir, a Kenyan citizen who was living in the U.S. illegally, also is charged in nearby Collin County with two counts of attempted capital murder for similar attacks there, according to county court records.

A Collin County grand jury also returned five capital murder indictments against Chemirmir on Tuesday.

Chemirmir has been in custody since March 2018 in the death of the 81-year-old Dallas woman, Lu Thi Harris. Police in Plano were investigating Chemirmir in connection with suspicious death and suspicious person calls at a senior apartment complex in that Dallas suburb and found evidence linking him to Harris' death in Dallas, authorities said. Plano is in Collin County.
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Suicide rate for American girls has risen faster than for boys

Sasha Ingber & Rhitu Chatterjee
NPR
Fri, 17 May 2019 15:00 UTC
girl on tablet
© Nicole Xu for NPR
The increase in suicide rates was highest for girls ages 10 to 14, rising by nearly 13% since 2007. While for boys of the same age, it rose by 7%.
The number of people dying by suicide in the U.S. has been rising, and a new study shows that the suicide rate among young teenage girls has been increasing faster than it has for boys of the same age.

Boys are still more likely to take their own lives. But the study published Friday in JAMA Network Open finds that girls are steadily narrowing that gap.

Researchers examined more than 85,000 youth suicides that occurred between 1975 and 2016. Donna Ruch, a researcher at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, who worked on the study, tells NPR that a major shift occurred after 2007.

Researchers found the increase was highest for girls ages 10 to 14, rising by nearly 13% since 2007. While for boys of the same age, it rose by 7%.

"That's where we saw the most significant narrowing of the gender gap," Ruch says.

There was also evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in the study. The differences in suicide rates between boys and girls were greatest among non-Hispanic black youth.

Comment: See also:

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Catholic bishop challenges Dallas police affidavit accuracy


ABC News
Fri, 17 May 2019 09:18 UTC
The Roman Catholic bishop of the Dallas
The Roman Catholic bishop of the Dallas diocese has challenged the accuracy of a Dallas police affidavit's allegations that the diocese had "thwarted" its investigation of past sexual misconduct by priests.

Police used the affidavit to authorize Monday raids on diocesan headquarters, a storage unit it uses and a church office. In the affidavit, police Detective David Clark described a diocese that wasn't forthcoming with critical files and relied on personnel to identify predatory behavior when they had no background or training to do so.

In his lengthy statement Friday, Bishop Edward J. Burns said the diocese had turned over all of the files it had on the priests and their cases.

"The fundamental premise of the affidavit is that because a piece of information discovered in an entirely independent police investigation is not in the diocese's files, the diocese must have hidden or concealed that information and is continuing to hide or conceal that information, so that it warrants a raid of religious offices," Burns said in his statement. "... But in reality, the diocese cannot turn over what it does not have."
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Why the 'Equality Act' is a setback not just for women but for all of society

Mary Vought
New York Post
Sat, 18 May 2019 11:17 UTC
Nancy Pelosi
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the Equality Act in March by grandly alluding to the civil rights battles of the last century. Yet the bill, which would add gender identity and sexual orientation to the Civil Rights Act, risks undermining decades of hard-fought gains by American women.

If enacted, gender identity - defined in the bill as the "gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, regardless of the individual's designated sex at birth" - would become a federally protected status. The bill's single-sentence definition includes no qualifying criteria or nuance.

Already, a biological male, even one who hasn't begun to physically transition, can assert female gender identity and win obeisance from many public and private institutions.
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Record 12bln rubles in CASH seized from arrested FSB colonel in corruption case


RT
Sat, 18 May 2019 11:17 UTC
rubles rublos
© Sputnik/ Ilya Pitalev
Some 12 billion rubles ($185 million) in cash has been reportedly seized from an FSB colonel facing charges of large scale corruption - overshadowing the notorious case of Colonel Zakharchenko and his record of 8.5 billion rubles.

The piles of cash - literally - were discovered at three apartments belonging to FSB Colonel Kirill Cherkalin and, allegedly, to his allies, Russian media reported on Friday, citing sources close to the investigation. Aside from cash, a whole collection of luxury wristwatches and other treasures were seized as well.

The funds were allegedly provided to the official and two of his accomplices by various banks and other businesses for "protection."
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Farage dismisses journalist's question on who pays for his bodyguards with "Russians"


RT
Fri, 17 May 2019 13:34 UTC
Nigel Farage
© REUTERS/Rebecca Naden
Nigel Farage in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, Britain.
The Brexit Party leader may have finally confessed that Brexit has been a Russian op all along. That, or he simply cut off a reporter, who was hounding him with questions about Leave campaign donor Arron Banks.

Former UKIP head Nigel Farage, whose new political party is currently crushing competition in the European Parliament election campaign, was chased by journalist Matt Frei for a report shown by Channel 4 on Thursday. The news outlet said Arron Banks, the millionaire supporter of the Brexit movement, was also bankrolling Farage's personal lifestyle, and Frei went to doorstep Farage during his visit to Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, on Wednesday.

Farage, who is well-known for using a condescending and rude tone when asked questions he doesn't like, is shown deflecting Tydfil's inquiries about who pays for his "operation" alternating between suggesting the reporter ask something relevant to the European Parliament election, sarcasm and simple silence.

Comment: People are voting for Farage because he is the only figurehead in British politics who says he will execute the will of the people, and attempts to smear him based on how he's funding his campaign are unlikely to work; particularly when the issue of donors, corruption and the abuse of public funds is endemic in British politics.

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More men are uncomfortable interacting with women at work since #MeToo, study says


CBS News
Fri, 17 May 2019 20:54 UTC
metoo
Women are still navigating the effects of male-dominated workplaces a year and a half after the rise of the #MeToo movement. A new study by LeanIn.org found 60 percent of male managers said they are uncomfortable interacting with women at work - up 32 percent from 2018. Workplace interactions that men are nervous about include mentoring, socializing and having one-on-one meetings.

Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In's founder and Facebook's chief operating officer, said on "CBS This Morning" on Friday the survey results indicates "we're in a bad place."

"Sixty percent of male managers in the U.S. - 60 percent - are afraid to have a one-on-one meeting with a woman," Sandberg said, to which Gayle King immediately asked, "How do you get promoted without a one-on-one meeting?"

Exactly Sandberg's point. She went on to explain that senior men who were surveyed are also nine times more likely to hesitate to travel with a woman and six times more likely to hesitate to have a work dinner.

Comment: The #MeToo movement has lead to some negative repercussions and this man-bashing, public declaration of female victimhood isn't going to help matters.

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Stop

Germany passes motion against the BDS movement because anti-Semitism


RT
Fri, 17 May 2019 18:14 UTC
BDS protest
© Stefanie Loos / Reuters
Germany's parliament has passed a motion defining the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic. It calls on Berlin to cut funding to groups supporting BDS.

The Bundestag voted to adopt the non-binding motion backed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party on Friday, making it the first European parliament to do so.

The FDP motion supported by the CDU, CSU, SPD and Greens says the "arguments and methods of the BDS movement are anti-Semitic," as it calls for the boycott of Israeli artists and because the BDS 'don't buy' labels put on Israeli goods "recall the most terrible phase of German history," referring to the Nazi slogan 'Don't buy from Jews'.

The motion urges the German government not to fund or support groups "that question Israel's right to exist," although that isn't what the BDS movement sets out to do.

Comment: BDS is the political and economic attempt of people with a conscience to stop Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This has nothing to do with anti-Semitism and has everything to do with respecting basic human rights.

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Life Preserver

Heroic boy lowered head-first into water-filled pipe to rescue trapped little girl


RT
Fri, 17 May 2019 18:55 UTC
Girl saved
© uvao.moscow
A walk in the park almost turned to tragedy for a little girl in Moscow, when she fell into a poorly-covered pipe filled with water. It took a blood-chilling trick, performed by a volunteer boy, to save the day.

In a video first published by the Mash Telegram channel, a group of men are seen trying to reach into a pipe going down below a lawn of a park in southeastern Moscow. "Grab her! Grab her!" they can be heard shouting, before the slim figure of a boy is lowered into the darkened pipe - and later emerges with a bawling toddler girl in tow.

According to Mash, the girl was running across the lawn when she stepped on the pipe's cover. It gave way, sending her plunging about four meters down.
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'Mass surveillance is exactly what the US does': Kim Dotcom points out glaring hypocrisy of Huawei ban


RT
Fri, 17 May 2019 18:36 UTC
huawei
© Reuters / Charles Platiau
Kim Dotcom has slammed the US for hypocrisy over its Huawei ban given America's history of "abusing technology" and "turning its entire tech sector into a spy machine."

The Megaupload founder took to Twitter in the wake of the ban to highlight that the abuse of technology for mass surveillance is "exactly the conduct of the US" and said that "because the US does it, they think China will too."


Trump declared a "national emergency" for the telecommunications sector on Wednesday, citing risks from "foreign adversaries."

Comment: Kim Dotcom is spot on. The Deep State is in full on projection mode towards Chinese tech

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