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Palestinian human rights observers in Hebron under attack following Israel's expulson of TIPH group

Yumna Patel
Mondoweisse
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:21 UTC
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Following Israel's expulsion of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observer group from Hebron last month, a group of Palestinian activists from the city formed their own team of observers to fill in the gaps. Issa Amro and his team of observers head out every morning to the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron's Old City and stand watch as children make their way to school. The kids must pass through several checkpoints monitored by armed soldiers, and streets that are patrolled by notoriously violent settlers.

In the month since they began their work, Amro's team have been given more than 10 military orders to stop work, and have been attacked by settlers several times. Amro told Mondoweiss that since TIPH was expelled, the situation in Hebron has gotten a lot worse. Mondoweiss followed the team around one morning, and in the span of half an hour, the group, including our cameraman, were attacked and harassed by Israeli settlers, while one international activist who was filming the altercation was arrested by police.

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University of Southern California is a corrupt, tax-exempt hedge fund for elites

Tiana Lowe
The Washington Examiner
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:48 UTC
USC college
© David McNew/Getty Images
Like most alumni of University of Southern California across the country today, my phone lit up with a number of iterations of this text: "USC's inability to go 5 seconds without a major scandal is just hilarious at this point."

Since the news broke that USC was one of a number of so-called "elite" universities implicated in a massive criminal admissions fraud scandal, the media is focused primarily on the weird cadre of celebrities who conspired in the enterprise. Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives and Lori Loughlin of Full House were both arrested as a result of the RICO case. Huffman, in a prime example of how not to get caught literally rigging the results of college admissions exams, unwisely documented the fraud across a string of texts and emails, including the phrase, "Ruh Ro!"

But it's worth taking a step back and understanding how this happened, not from the side of the parents and their hired riggers, but from those colleges complicit in further degrading the state of American academia.
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Australian Aboriginals can now sue for colonial land loss

Bill Code
Aljazeera
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:20 UTC
Chris Griffiths and Lorraine Jones
© Northern Land CouncilChris Griffiths and Lorraine Jones were two of the plaintiffs who brought the case to court.
The High Court of Australia has handed down the biggest "native title" ruling affecting Aboriginal ownership of the land in decades, amid claims that billions of dollars in compensation will need to be paid by governments to indigenous groups.

"Native title" refers to the rights of Australia's indigenous people to their traditional land and water recognised by Australian common law.

Lawyers, including those representing mining companies, said the ruling in favour of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali Aboriginal groups - from a remote part of the Northern Territory - paved the way for billions of dollars in compensation nationally.

"The High Court's decision will likely to trigger compensation applications from many of the hundreds of native title holder groups around Australia," said Tony Denholder, in the wake of a case that a federal court ruled on in 2016 - before the High Court became involved.
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Denmark is in a state of unreported collapse due to immigrants who resist assimilating and the cost of providing them with services

Ole Hasselbalch
Gatestone Institute
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 05:00 UTC
Denmark
© Erik Christensen/Wikimedia CommonsContrary to misleading media reports, Denmark is not forcing suffering refugees to live on a remote island. Only foreign criminals "convicted of crimes and slated for deportation under the terms of their sentences" will be housed there. And they will even be given ferry rides to the mainland, under the excuse that this is necessary due to "international conventions".
The media portrayal of Denmark as a country hostile and inhumane to migrants is misleading, if not completely false.

One reason for the inaccurate picture is that it is painted by journalists' political bias. Another is that trustworthy official Danish statistics on the country's immigration problem are both difficult to find and even harder to interpret. A further problem is a lack of reliable research, at best; and purposely distorted data, at worst.

The following breakdown illustrates that rather than being more relatively free of the consequences of mass migration than other European countries in general, and Scandinavian countries in particular, Denmark is in a state of societal collapse. In spite of Copenhagen's many laws that govern migration and affect immigrants, the Danish people have been experiencing a major cultural and political shift in their life as they have traditionally known it.
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ICE officers give up on Trump over catch and release policy, send scathing letter

Jason Hopkins
The Daily Caller
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 17:30 UTC
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The National ICE Council issued a scathing letter to President Donald Trump regarding the continuation of "wasteful and dangerous" immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border.

"We regretfully write to inform you that in the middle of an immigration crisis on the southern border, your Administration is squandering scarce ICE resources and playing political games with our officers," the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council wrote in a letter sent to Trump on Monday. "To be direct Mr. President - the rhetoric doesn't match reality and we hope that this letter shows you the complete and total nonsense that is really taking place under the Trump Administration on the southern border."

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Ex-Obama official tried pulling strings to have Smollett case transferred to FBI

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:12 UTC
Jussie Smollett, Kim Foxx

Jussie Smollett, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx
Michelle Obama's former Chief of Staff, Tina Tchen, attempted to have the Jussie Smollett case transferred from the Chicago Police Department to the FBI, according to texts and emails released by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.

Tchen, a Chicago-based attorney, reached out on Feb. 1 to Chicago's top prosecutor Kim Foxx - telling her that the "Empire" actor's family had "concerns" about the investigation.

Smollett was considered at the time to be the victim of an assault, however the actor was subsequently charged with disorderly conduct for filing a false police report in connection with a staged hate crime. Last week, a Chicago grand jury slapped Smollett with a 16 count indictment for lying to the police - to which he pleaded not guilty on Thursday.

"Spoke to the Superintendent Johnson," Foxx emailed Tchen on Feb. 1, in reference to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. "I convinced him to Reach out to FBI to ask that they take over the investigation."

Comment: For more on the Smollett case, see:

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Italians outraged after court rules woman 'too ugly' to be raped

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:02 UTC
Italian protesters
The Italian Justice Ministry has ordered a preliminary investigation into an appeals court ruling by all-female judges which overturned a rape verdict by arguing in part that the woman who was attacked was too ugly to be a credible rape victim, according to The Star.
The ruling has sparked outrage in Italy, prompting a flash mob Monday outside the Ancona court, where protesters shouted "Shame!" and held up signs saying "indignation."

The appeals sentence was handed down in 2017 - by an all-female panel - but the reasons behind it only emerged publicly when Italy's high court annulled it on March 5 and ordered a retrial. The Court of Cassation said Wednesday its own reasons for ordering the retrial will be issued next month. -The Star
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Mob hit: Gambino boss gunned down outside Staten Island home

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:13 UTC
Francesco
Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali
The head of the Gambino crime family, Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali was gunned down on Wednesday night in front of his Staten Island home.

The 53-year-old Cali was shot six times in the chest and then run over by an assassin driving a blue pickup truck in the lavish Todt Hill neighborhood around 9:20 p.m., while his wife and young children were inside, according to the NY Post.

He was taken to Staten Island University Hospital where he died.
The gunman sped off in a blue pickup truck after the hit, which one source described as "disrespectful" because it took place near his family home in an outer borough.

Cali is the first mob boss to be slain in New York City since a fresh-faced John Gotti ordered the murder of then-Gambino boss Paul Castellano in 1985 at Sparks steakhouse in Midtown.

"Even Gotti had more respect," one police source told The Post. "He did it out in Manhattan." -NY Post
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Six common themes in the Jussie Smollett and college admissions scandals

Thomas Lifson
American Thinker
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:34 UTC
Yale University
Winter for the Ruling Class
Hollywood elites are, by definition, in the business of concocting fictional stories. Is it any surprise that they apply these skill sets beyond screen and stage entertainment, where the fiction is acknowledged, and use them to achieve their objectives in realms affecting their personal and political lives?

In both the college admissions scandal and the alleged hate crime fraud masterminded (I use the term very loosely) by Jussie Smollett, I find five other common points in addition to the first point of employing fiction:

Two: Powerful people from powerful families with no concern for issues of right and wrong tried to accomplish their goals "by any means necessary." Religion - the notion the God watches over us and knows when we sin - is regarded as a quaint vestige of the past and a hindrance to achieving necessary ends, both personal and political.

Three: Wealth enables payoffs. Most people cannot conceive of lavishing thousands of dollars, much less hundreds of thousands or even millions, on bribes because they earn their money through hard work. But such are the rewards of stardom or business success: once liberated from concerns over morality (see point two), there is no problem in offering whatever it takes ($3,500 for a couple of Nigerian brothers, or millions to a college official) to get the desired behavior.

Comment: See also:

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'I have morals': Ex- wife of $273mn lotto winner says 'she still doesn't want him back'

Zoe Papadakis
Newsmax
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:09 UTC
New Jersey lottery Mike Weirsky
Here's a woman who knows what she wants - and doesn't want! When Mike Weirsky of New Jersey hit the lotto jackpot for $273 million, many people likely thought his ex-wife would want him back. After all, the couple divorced only months ago and financial issues were apparently part of their problems.

Take him back? No way, 53-year-old Eileen Murray. All the money in the world won't bring her back to her former husband of 15 years.

"He's not appealing to me all of a sudden because he has this money," she told the New York Post. "I'm not going after anything. I have morals. I know what I've worked for and it's everything that I have."
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