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China's response to Trump's tariffs will 'hurt US exports, employment and economy'

RT
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:12 UTC

Beijing is ready to answer Washington's $60 billion tariff by imposing barriers against American goods, according to the Chinese state daily the Global Times.

China will target a large number of American imports, the newspaper reports. Last week, US President Donald Trump imposed $60 billion worth of tariffs against Chinese goods in an attempt to cut the massive trade deficit with the world's second-largest economy.

Court orders black-cab rapist to remain behind bars as Parole Board head forced to resign

RT
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:07 UTC

The black-cab rapist will remain behind bars after two victims fought the Parole Board's decision to release him, and won the landmark case. As a result, Chairman of the Parole Board Nick Hardwick has been forced to resign.

Three judges gave their ruling against the Parole Board on Wednesday morning. The decision follows a two-day hearing, in which legal representatives for black-cab rapist John Worboys' two victims argued that the release of the violent sex offender was "irrational."

The victims who brought the case against the Parole Board said that something went "badly wrong" with their decision to free the sex attacker. They believe the board should have considered the "critical evidence" of "wider allegations" against Worboys.

Muslim teacher who trained teen 'mini-militia' to be ISIS terrorists jailed for 25 years

RT
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:01 UTC

A man who trained an "army of children" to carry out terrorist attacks in London has been jailed for 25 years. Umar Ahmed Haque planned to use car bombs and guns to attack 30 locations - including Big Ben and the UK parliament.

Haque, 25, showed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) propaganda to 16 children at the Ripple Road Mosque in an attempt to brainwash the youths. "Umar has been teaching us how to fight, do push-ups, given strength and within six years he was planning to do a big attack on London," one of the children told police, the Old Bailey heard.

"He wants a group of 300 men. He's training us now so, by the time I'm in Year 10, we will be physically strong enough to fight," the child added.

Austria's 'burqa ban' proves a spectacular failure

RT
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:58 UTC

Six months into Austria's 'Anti-Face-Veiling Act,' aimed at removing burqas and facial veils from public spaces, has proved to be what some might call an epic fail.

The law, which came into effect last October, was only expected to impact the 150 Austrian Muslim women that wear burqas, or around 0.002 percent of the entire population. Under the new law, Muslim women found wearing a burqa and face veil could be subject to a €150 ($177 USD) on-the-spot fine.

During the first two weeks of the ban, 30 people were cited in Vienna alone for disobeying the new law. However, most of them were protesters dressed as clowns, in animal costumes or wearing scarves, according to the Austrian Profil magazine.

Comment: As the Metro reports only .002% of Austrian women wear burqas. So who's getting punished? Those 'criminal' cyclists wearing scarves and the 'vile villains' who wear shark costumes:

In the days after the ban, Vienna police arrested a man wearing a shark costume for a PR stunt, and arrested cyclists for wearing scarves as face masks. Only 150 Austrian Muslim women actually wear veils, according to local publication Profil - making 0.002% of the population, according to Quartz. [...]

An investigation by Profil found that less than 30 people had been arrested - and mostly not for wearing burqas. In Zell am See, a resort popular with tourists from the MIddle East, there has only been one arrest, 'not for a woman with a facial veil, but a man with a sports hood,' a police spokesman said.

Parkland survivor: Activists intend to parlay bump stock ban into massive gun control

Awr Hawkins
Breitbart
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:58 UTC

During Saturday's student march for gun control, Parkland shooting survivor Delany Tarr made clear that she and other gun controllers plan to parlay a bump stock ban into numerous other gun controls.

Tarr spoke to the crowd and Think Progress quoted her saying, "When they give us that inch, that bump stock ban, we will take a mile."

Tarr's statement exposes the threat to freedom tied to the bump stock ban from day one. After all, bump stocks do not convert semiautomatic firearms into automatic ones, so banning them as if they do opens the door to banning numerous other devices that do not convert the actions of semiautomatic either.

Comment: Further reading: US Wars Fund The Welfare State Which Finances The Liberal March Towards Totalitarianism

The liberal ideology has killed the family and now nothing stands in the way of totalitarian control of every citizen, even in his very home. But the destruction of the family is only one of numerous nefarious objectives pursued by the progressive ideology and those that espouse it. Of course, those objectives are carefully hidden behind a politically correct facade [...]

Today, totalitarianism has manifested through a sort of ideological hydra, and only its heads are visible under the guise of many 'activist' groups, all of which define themselves as 'oppressed'. Despite their apparent diversity, all such 'activist' groups belong to the same ideological body: liberalism/progressivism.

Israeli who lynched Eritrean gets community service while Ahed Tamimi gets prison

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:58 UTC

Ahed Tamimi's recent plea deal for 8 months of prison for slapping a soldier occupying her property last December coincides with yet another reduction of the sentence of Israeli medic-soldier killer Elor Azarya (now reduced to merely 9 months), a coincidence that has been hard to miss. Slapping a soldier appears to be worse than killing a Palestinian.

But there was another stark parallel, few have noticed (among them Tamara Nassar in Electronic Intifada): On Wednesday, David Muial, an Israeli who took part in a bloody lynching of Eritrean refugee Habtom Zarhum in October 2015, got a penalty of community service - not for murder, not for manslaughter - but for "abusing the helpless", as reported by Times of Israel

Zarhum was one of the victims of Israel's various 'mistaken identity' embarrassments.

Comment: Further reading: Gideon Levy: 'No society lives in as much denial as Israel' (VIDEO)

NYC legislator want to ban after-hours work emails

Henry Fernandez
Fox Business
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:31 UTC

Fed up with having to check job-related email after hours? Think there ought to be a law?

Legislation in New York City would make it illegal for employees to access work-related email outside their regular work schedules.

Rafael Espinal, representing the 37th District in New York City, is set to introduce a bill at the City Council meeting on Thursday to give New Yorkers the right to disconnect.

"This is a serious law, and I think that in the form that it is right now, I can't imagine that it's going to pass, but stranger things have happened," Kyle Reyes, The Silent Partner Marketing CEO, said during an interview on FOX Business' "Risk & Reward" on Monday.

Work-life balance is unique to the individual and shouldn't be legislated, according to Reyes.

"To pass legislation saying, 'You can't force your employees to check emails after hours,' there are no exemptions in the way it's written right now that we can see that provided exemptions for police or for medical professionals," he said.

Former FBI special agent says Andrew McCabe 'Targeted', 'Slandered' Her

CNN
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC

Video
A former FBI counterterrorism agent reacted to an op-ed written by recently-fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

"Not in my worst nightmares did I dream my FBI career would end this way," McCabe entitled his Washington Post piece published Friday.

Robyn Gritz, who said she served 16 years with the bureau fighting terrorism, told "Fox & Friends" that she celebrated McCabe's dismissal and that it brought back memories of how he allegedly mistreated her.

Gritz said that she began working with McCabe in 2005 until she ultimately resigned several years later.

She said McCabe retaliated against her for filing a harassment claim against one of her supervisors.

Gritz said that, while working as a "detailee" to the CIA, her boss began "scrutinizing [her] work and asking questions" about her purportedly being "fragile" after her divorce.

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The Guardian pushes for a Facebook break-up

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:34 UTC

Is it time to break up Facebook?

Now that Facebook has been outed for selling user data to help Trump target voters (Obama did the same exact thing and the media seemed to have no problem with it), the liberal left media is now turning on the liberal left social network.

The Trump effect is tearing apart the largest social network.

The Guardian is hot and bothered by Facebook's indirect "collusion" with the Trump campaign, as the UK based newspaper is calling for the FTC to break apart Zuckerberg's spy apparatus, in much the same way Microsoft was "ordered" to split apart in 2000...

Comment: See also:

Jordan Peterson's critics are resorting to desperate attacks

Russ McSwain
American Thinker
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC

Jordan Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist, is having an enormous impact on our culture. His refusal to use legally mandated language has reverberated around the world.

He is obviously rattling leftists as they continue to make hysterical claims about him. The most recent and long-winded example comes from Nathan J. Robinson, the editor of Current Affairs. He published an almost twelve-thousand-word essay in that journal. It's hard to believe, but even with all those words he lands not a single blow on Peterson. He does manage to make a complete fool of himself.

His essay begins by listing an impressive group of people, including the head of Harvard's Psychology Department, who praise Peterson's work. He then sets out to try to prove them all wrong. He also lists a large number of writers who have treated Peterson unfairly. He then supersedes them all. There is no way to cover all the silliness in this piece, but I can explain a few of the problems in it. If you think I'm making this stuff up, by all means, read the whole messy, wordy essay.

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Society's Child

China's response to Trump's tariffs will 'hurt US exports, employment and economy'

Court orders black-cab rapist to remain behind bars as Parole Board head forced to resign

Muslim teacher who trained teen 'mini-militia' to be ISIS terrorists jailed for 25 years

Austria's 'burqa ban' proves a spectacular failure

Parkland survivor: Activists intend to parlay bump stock ban into massive gun control

Israeli who lynched Eritrean gets community service while Ahed Tamimi gets prison

NYC legislator want to ban after-hours work emails

Former FBI special agent says Andrew McCabe 'Targeted', 'Slandered' Her

The Guardian pushes for a Facebook break-up

Jordan Peterson's critics are resorting to desperate attacks

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