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California university's speech code threatens to punish students for jokes

Greg Piper
The College Fix
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:32 UTC

Offend someone just once and you're in trouble

Telling sex jokes can get you investigated by Texas public universities. Failure to report students who tell sex jokes can get faculty at Texas public universities thrown in jail.

Who would have thought Texas would look worse than California when it comes to speech codes?

Yet California public universities still have their share of kooky conduct codes that infringe on speech, and one of them even has a similar zero-tolerance rule for offensive jokes.

The new "Speech Code of the Month" by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education comes from California State University-Channel Islands, and it's bounded only by the imagination of humorless, woke administrators.

Its Resident Handbook prohibits even a single occurrence of "derogatory comments" or "slurs," whether spoken or visual, and even "gestures" (don't flip the bird at anyone!). It also includes "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature," which is how you get punished for telling that limerick about a man from Nantucket within earshot of a fourth-wave feminist.

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Russian MoD names naval officers who perished in deep sea sub fire - Full info remains classified

RT
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 17:42 UTC

The 14 officers who died fighting a disastrous fire on a Russian deep water research vessel have been named by the Russian Defense Ministry. The crew have sacrificed their lives to save fellow officers and save the submersible.

"Thanks to their timely, dedicated and competent actions, the submariners extinguished the fire, and saved their comrades and the deep-sea vessel while sacrificing their lives," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

Seven 'captains 1st class' (Russian equivalent to NATO OF-5/US O-6 captain rank), perished in the blaze, namely Konstantin Ivanov, Andrey Voskresenskiy, Konstantin Somov, Denis Oparin, and Vladimir Abankin, as well as two honored 'Heroes of Russia' - Denis Dolonskiy and Nikolay Filin.

We need a First Amendment for the Internet to counter the troubling censorship of social media

Konstantin Kisin
The Telegraph
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:00 UTC

The repercussions of companies with an effective monopoly on our news using their position to impose ‘values’ should concern us all

For all its focus on "diversity", Silicon Valley is about as ideologically diverse as a vegan powwow

The advent of modern technology has brought us extraordinary freedoms. Millions now find love by swiping on their phone, podcasters reach audiences of millions from the comfort of their bedrooms and well-meaning neighbours keep us safe by recording private arguments and sending them to national newspapers.

Nowadays elections pivot on viral content published online, while political careers can be ended by an ill-thought tweet or launched with an ingenious piece of clickbait. According to Pew Research, over 61 per cent of milennials get their political news primarily from Facebook. In the decades to come, TV and legacy media will cede power and influence to social media, YouTube and podcasts.

This opening up of this marketplace of information undoubtedly carries huge benefits, but as our political dialogue becomes more heated, it prompts worrying questions.

Comment: Social media platforms are seriously overstepping their bounds in making themselves arbiters of acceptable discourse. If they were smart, they would remain neutral and let those who have always been responsible for enforcing speech laws continue. But it seems they would rather step away from neutrality and try to use their power to influence the masses. By making themselves responsible for what gets published on their platform, they open themselves up to all sorts of hassle, but apparently they would rather control public opinion than simply provide a service.

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'And you tell me to wear an abaya?!": Nicki Minaj to headline festival in Saudi Arabia

RT
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 20:41 UTC

REUTERS/Carlo Allegri; Global Look Press / Godong

Hip hop artist Nicki Minaj, known for her scantily-clad shows with twerking and half-nude dancers, will headline a festival in Saudi Arabia. The country's dress code may not apply to Minaj, but Saudi women are expected to comply.

Organizers of the Jeddah Season cultural festival, a project overseen by a Saudi government agency, announced on Tuesday that Minaj would perform at the event, scheduled for July 18. The musician's stage act, which typically features provocative dancing and songs use vulgar language, has prompted cries of hypocrisy, aimed at a government that imposes austere restrictions on women.

One Saudi woman took to Twitter to call out the double standards. Her video has been viewed thousands of times and has gone viral.

Comment: Considering the sordid underbelly of Saudi Arabia, much appreciated by Saudi elites, it isn't too surprising they would find an act like Minaj appealing, perhaps her booking was intended to be more of a private affair: Saudi princess reveals Kingdom's dark side: "Orgies with underage girls, heavy drug and alcohol abuse"

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And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Saudi Arabia: A Wretched Hive of Scum And Villainy, Fully Supported by The West

Israel: Off-duty cop shoots and kills unarmed black Ethiopian Jewish teen UPDATE

Robert Inlakesh
21st Century Wire
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC

© Avshalom Sassoni/Jerusalem Post
Ethiopian Jews protest murder of 24-year-old Yehuda Biagda by police brutality January 2019.

An Israeli off-duty police officer shot dead an 18 year old Ethiopian Israeli Jew, near Haifa, this Sunday sparking outrage amongst the Ethiopian Jewish population.

Demonstrators voiced their outrage this Monday after the gunning down of an unarmed black Jewish teen in the area of Kiryat Haim, near Haifa which is located in Northern Israel.

An off-duty Israeli police officer shot dead 18 year old, Soloman Tekha, claiming that the unarmed teens had put his life in danger, however, all of the eyewitnesses testified against this claim.

The officer, who has not been identified over his personal "security concerns", was apparently detained and later released to temporary house arrest following the incident.

The claim made by the officer was that he approached an ongoing fight that had broken out and as he approached to help, he had stones thrown at him, this was then used as the justification - being the "life threatening" circumstance - for the drawing of his weapon and fatally shooting the unarmed black teenager.

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Update 3/7/2019, 08:11, from RT:

Israel sees violent protests after Police kill Ethiopian teen

© Reuters/Corinna Kern
Car burns as part of a protest over death of Solomon Tekah.
Some 47 police officers were injured and 60 people arrested after a spate of protests across Israel over the shooting dead of 18-year-old Ethiopian-descendant Solomon Teka. Protesters erected burning barricades and clashed with police in the northern city of Haifa on Monday and Tuesday following Teka's death in Kiryat Haim late on Sunday.

Crowds of Ethiopian Israelis blocked junctions across the country after an off-duty police officer reportedly shot the teenager dead. The cop has been placed under house arrest and an investigation into the shooting is underway.

"It's not 'killing', it's murder," Teka's cousin, Amir, said in a radio interview on Tuesday, as cited by Al Jazeera. "It cannot be that a person is next to his home and gets murdered and they say 'killed.' What was it? A work accident? Was he hit by a car?"

© REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Relatives and friends of Solomon Teka attend his funeral in Haifa, Israel July 2, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video response to the violent clashes late on Tuesday, saying that "everyone was mourning the tragic death of Solomon Teka," while beseeching the crowds not to escalate further. "I ask you, let's solve the problems together while adhering to the law."

© REUTERS/ Corinna Kern
Crowd confronts police
The Ethiopian Jewish community numbers around 140,000, including more than 50,000 expats. They have complained of systemic harassment and racism since forming in Israel in the 1980s and 1990s after an in an influx of Jews from elsewhere in the world.

'Mini AOC' doxxed and threatened, family shuts down all her social accounts

RACHEL Stoltzfoos
The Daily Caller
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:02 UTC

The family of a young girl who went viral for mocking Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shut down all of her social accounts Wednesday, after receiving death threats and harassing phone calls.

A tweet from the account purporting to belong to the little girl's stepfather said she will not be doing any more content because the harassment and death threats "have gone too far" and threaten her and the family's safety.

Court to unseal up to 2,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents

Julie K. Brown
The Miami Hearld
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:26 UTC

The girls who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and the cops who championed their cause remain angry over what they regard as a gross injustice, while Epstein's employees and those who engineered his non-prosecution agreement have prospered

A New York federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the unsealing of up to 2,000 pages of judicial documents that are expected to show evidence relating to whether New York financier Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, were recruiting underage girls and young women as part of an international sex trafficking operation.

The decision comes two days after the Miami Herald urged the court to issue a ruling in the civil case in the wake of last week's Justice Department announcement in the federal criminal case that it would not void Epstein's controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement.

Using others as recruiters, Epstein lured underage girls to his waterfront estate in Palm Beach from 1997 to 2006 under the guise that he was hiring them to give him massages. He sexually abused them, the girls told authorities, then paid them to recruit other girls, mostly 13 to 16 years old. Epstein, now 66, was never federally prosecuted, having received immunity in exchange for pleading guilty to lesser charges in state court in 2008.

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Former federal prisons worker arrested in cold-case sex attacks using genetic database

Emily Shapiro
ABC News
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:10 UTC

manteuffel rape genetic genealogy database

A former Federal Bureau of Prisons worker and college lecturer was arrested for a series of "horrific" sex attacks in the Sacramento area in the 1990s -- thanks to a novel DNA technique, authorities said.

Mark Manteuffel, 59, was arrested at his home in Georgia on Friday, Police Chief Daniel Hahn said at a news conference on Monday. His case was the first in California that was originally filed against a John Doe using only a DNA profile and investigators were able to find him using genetic genealogy, which allowed him to be tracked through family members, according to Hahn.

He spent several years in Sacramento while attending Sacramento State University and even worked as a part-time lecturer on law enforcement and criminal at the school, the chief said.

Released Swedish privacy activist, Ola Bini: Ecuador prison conditions are 'inhuman'

RT
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 03:18 UTC

© REUTERS/Daniel Tapia
Swedish software developer Ola Bini reacts while leaving a provisional detention centre in Quito, Ecuador June 20, 2019.

Ola Bini, who spent over two months in an Ecuadorian jail after being arrested on the same day as his "friend" Julian Assange, has said he doesn't know why he was detained, and decried the squalid conditions in which he was kept.

Bini, a Swedish software developer and digital privacy enthusiast, told RIA Novosti that he is still being kept in the dark about the true reasons for his 79-day detention. He said that he had never been charged with any crime and was still waiting for the authorities to present any incriminating evidence.

"They have not provided any evidence of a crime. I don't know why they put me in jail, I don't know why they repeatedly violated Ecuadorian laws in order to keep me in jail," Bini said.

Speaking about the conditions during his extended pretrial detention, Bini said he was kept in an overcrowded cell and had to sleep on a concrete floor with other detainees. Some 95 prisoners were crammed into 17 cells, with each cell having only one bed, he said. The cells had no running water or heating, "which made hygiene impossible."

"The life was very hard. The worst part was not knowing when I would be free, and whether I would be free at all," he said. The programmer was released on June 20 after successfully contesting his arrest.

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Organizers of Georgia protests to change tactics

RFE/RL
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:43 UTC

As mass demonstrations in Georgia near the two-week mark, organizers calling for the resignation of the country's interior minister over police violence during the initial rally against Russian influence are changing their tactics to ensure that their protests do not fade away without results.

One of the organizers, Giga Makarishvili, said to RFE/RL on July 3 that from now on rallies will be held using what he called "guerrilla tactics."

Makarishvili explained that protesters will be following Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia everywhere he goes, demanding his resignation.

More than 240 people were injured when police fired rubber bullets and water cannons to turn back crowds trying to enter the parliament building on June 20. The opposition accuses Gakharia of using excessive force to break up the demonstration, and protesters have gathered nightly in front of the parliament building to demand his resignation.

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Society's Child

California university's speech code threatens to punish students for jokes

Russian MoD names naval officers who perished in deep sea sub fire - Full info remains classified

We need a First Amendment for the Internet to counter the troubling censorship of social media

'And you tell me to wear an abaya?!": Nicki Minaj to headline festival in Saudi Arabia

Israel: Off-duty cop shoots and kills unarmed black Ethiopian Jewish teen UPDATE

'Mini AOC' doxxed and threatened, family shuts down all her social accounts

Court to unseal up to 2,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents

Former federal prisons worker arrested in cold-case sex attacks using genetic database

Released Swedish privacy activist, Ola Bini: Ecuador prison conditions are 'inhuman'

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