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American woman divorced from Saudi husband trapped in Saudi Arabia

Ben Hubbard
New York Times
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:00 UTC
Saudi women
© Tomas Munita for The New York Times
Every Saudi woman has a male “guardian” whose permission she needs to obtain a passport, travel or pursue certain medical procedures.
At first, Saudi Arabia was an adventure for Bethany Vierra.

An American from Washington State, she taught at a women's university, started a company, married a Saudi businessman and gave birth to a curly-haired daughter, Zaina.

But since the marriage went sour and she sought a divorce, she has been trapped. Because of the kingdom's so-called guardianship laws, which give men great power over women, she is unable to use her bank account, leave the country, travel with her daughter or seek legal help, according to her cousin, Nicole Carroll.

"She is completely stuck," Ms. Carroll, 37, said by phone from Dublin, Calif. "She is out of options."

Ms. Vierra, 31, is now divorced, but her ex-husband let her residency expire, meaning she has lost access to her bank account and cannot get authorization to leave the country, Ms. Carroll said. Their 4-year-old daughter cannot travel without her father's permission, meaning that even if Ms. Vierra finds a way to leave the kingdom, her child may have to stay behind.

Comment: The injustices suffered by Saudi women can't have been a surprise for Ms Vierra, but perhaps were the US not so beholden to Saudi Arabia they may attempt to do more on her behalf. And let this be yet another lesson for those entering into any kind of relations with Saudi Arabia, even traveling for a holiday, that the country is a law unto itself: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: West Discovers Saudi Arabia Has Human Rights Issues & The Real Reason People Hate Trump

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Stock Down

Government debt bad, private sector worse and could trigger the next financial crisis

Stefan Gleason
Activist Post
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:29 UTC
debt prison
© The Anti-Media
The $22 trillion official national debt is a much discussed problem, even as politicians exhibit zero motivation to do anything about it. But as big an economic overhang as it is, government debt isn't likely to trigger the next financial crisis.

Yes, servicing the growing federal debt bubble will depress GDP growth, cause the value of the dollar to drop, and raise inflation risks. But the bubble itself won't necessarily burst - not anytime soon.

As long as politicians face no political consequences for deficit spending, and as long as the Federal Reserve keeps the Treasury bond market propped up... then many more trillions can be added to the national debt.

Meanwhile, more fragile debt bubbles exist in the private sector. Unlike government debt - which carries the implicit backing of the Fed's unlimited printing press - debts incurred by corporations, investors, consumers, and students can default.

Comment: See also:

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Family

Canada: Insane judge rules that a parent dissuading children from transgender "treatments" is considered "family violence"

Jonathon Van Maren
The Bridgehead
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:49 UTC
parents with child
The day is rapidly approaching here in Canada when the transgender ideology will entirely trump the rights of parents. We're seeing that with the sex education curriculums in schools, we're seeing that in several provinces in regard to parents being able to seek therapy that helps their children become comfortable in their own bodies if they suffer from gender dysphoria, and now a truly terrifying judgement has been passed down from British Columbia's top court. From Parents As First Educators (PAFE):

Comment: The day that transgender ideology takes precedence over parents' rights has already arrived. Indeed scary, and dangerous. When law is determined on the basis of ideology, without fact or rational discourse, we can say hello totalitarianism, goodbye freedom. See also:

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'Whiteness studies' professor tells students white people 'dangerous' if they don't see race

Diana Soriano
The College Fix
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:21 UTC
Robin DiAngelo
During a guest lecture at Boston University on Monday, University of Washington Professor Robin DiAngelo told the audience a "dangerous white person" sees people as individuals rather than by skin color.

DiAngelo, whose main field of work is "whiteness studies," added that those who say they were taught to treat everyone the same deny black people of their reality, she said.

In making the claim, DiAngelo said she was lifting the terminology from her frequent co-facilitator at speaking engagements, black scholar Erin Trent Johnson.

DiAngelo's comments were couched during a section of her talk titled "What Does It Mean To Be White" that discussed colorblindness and those who say "I was taught to treat everyone the same, or some version of that."

"If you are being honest, you've probably said it," she told the audience, then added that in reality no one in the room was taught to treat everyone the same. "Your parents could lecture you to do it [but] you don't do it, you can't do it, there is no human objectivity."

Comment: Thanks to years of radical left feminist indoctrination, we get people like to DiAngelo spreading their pathological ideology to young impressionable students at what is supposed to be 'higher education'.

See also: The university as a center for authoritarian indoctrination: How Ed Schools became a menace to higher education

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NPC

Ridiculous! School comes under heavy liberal criticism for including characters dressed in KKK garb for performance of play

Shelly Conlon
Argus Leader
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:40 UTC
The Foreigner.
© Roosvelt Drama Facebook page
Roosevelt High School's Facebook page announces its production of "The Foreigner." The play sparked controversy over the weekend after a local nonprofit said a scene of student actors dressed in KKK attire only contributed to racial tension and community divide in today's political climate.
The Sioux Falls School District is apologizing to the public Tuesday after a weekend performance of "The Foreigner" at Roosevelt High School was found to be culturally insensitive, officials said.

The play featured a scene of student actors dressed in Ku Klux Klan attire. Officials said the district didn't follow the proper vetting guidelines for the production, following concerns raised by local community organization Establishing Sustainable Connections.

"The district has guidelines in place for vetting plays and other such works. The district failed to follow those guidelines," the district released in a statement. "We sincerely regret this and will continue to take action in our quest to be a culturally responsive school community."

The play, first produced in 1983, depicts the farcical story about a shy Englishman visiting a lodge in rural Georgia. During his visit, the man pretends he can't speak a word of English and ends up overhearing all sorts of secrets involving the lodge and its visitors.

Comment: At least a few people are getting out there and calling this reaction out for what it is:







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Black Cat

Denver Airport adds talking animatronic gargoyle to make light of dark rumors associated with major travel hub

Jake Anderson
The Mind Unleashed
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
gargoyle at denver airport
There's no other airport in the world with as many conspiracy theories attached to it as the Denver International Airport (DIA). Claims of the 35,000 acre structure - the second largest airport in existence - being home to a clandestine military installation have dogged DIA since its bloated $4.8 billion construction came to a finish in 1995. Airport executives are aware of the conspiracies and, in an attempt to dispel the myths, just built an interactive gargoyle to converse with wayward travelers.

The conspiracy theories related to the Denver Airport stem largely from the outlandish - and sometimes disturbing - murals, decor, and art exhibits festooning both its interior and exterior. There is, for example, the 32-foot tall steel armature sculpture of Blue Mustang, nicknamed Blucifer, who rears toward the sky with glowing red eyes. The sculpture gained special notoriety when, during construction, its head fell off and severed an artery of creator Luis Jiménez, ultimately killing him.

blucifer

Comment: See also:

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Brick Wall

'Breaking point': Over 76,000 illegal migrants crossed US border last month

Caitlin Dickerson
New York Times
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 20:06 UTC
Migrants from Central America
© Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times
Migrants from Central America turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents in Penitas, Tex., last month.
The number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has once again broken records, with unauthorized entries nearly double what they were a year ago, suggesting that the Trump administration's aggressive policies have not discouraged new migration to the United States.

More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, an 11-year high and a strong sign that stepped-up prosecutions, new controls on asylum and harsher detention policies have not reversed what remains a powerful lure for thousands of families fleeing violence and poverty.

"The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point," Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, told reporters in announcing the new data on Tuesday.
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Bomb

UK police investigate explosives sent to Waterloo Station, Heathrow and London City Airports - UPDATES


Sky News
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:56 UTC
waterloo airport investigation

Police are investigating three packages, including one at Waterloo
Counter-terror police have said three suspicious packages found near transport hubs across London were "small improvised explosive devices".

Officers were called to Waterloo Station, London City Airport and an office building near Heathrow Airport in separate incidents within hours of each other earlier today.

Three A4-sized white postal bags containing yellow Jiffy bags were found, the Met Police has now confirmed.

Specialist officers have assessed the packages, which were found to be "small improvised explosive devices".

The devices were "not sophisticated", they said.


Counter terrorism officers say they are treating the incidents as "a linked series" but are "keeping an open mind regarding motives".

Comment: The 'obvious connection' being made is that this is intended to influence the Brexit negotiations, with the bomb threats ostensibly being a reminder from Irish nationalists that 'we're still here' as the potential return of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland looms.

Less obvious is whether this is connected with the simultaneous 'suspicious packages' being sent to government ministers in Dublin, which sparked an 'anti-terror' military lock-down there two days ago.

UPDATE 6pm CET

The "Irish connection" is now explicit: the explosives reportedly had Irish stamps:
British police have launched a counterterrorism probe after "small improvised explosive devices" were found in envelopes bearing Irish stamps at London sites including Heathrow Airport, City Airport and Waterloo train station.
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MET Police also confirmed that police in Ireland were assisting the investigation.


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The fact that the envelopes had Irish stamps has immediately aroused suspicions that the incident could be related to tense relations between Dublin and London over Brexit negotiations.

The London Telegraph suggested that the incident could be part of a plot by dissident republican groups in Ireland. The issue of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been a major sticking point in Brexit talks, with the Irish side insisting on a 'backstop' measure to ensure that a hard border will never be introduced on the island, while the pro-Brexit side in the UK insist that a backstop is unnecessary to prevent a hard border and claim it is hampering a clean break from the EU.
An initially 'suspicious' package found today near the entrance to Britain's parliament was later deemed 'not suspicious'.

UPDATE 10pm CET

RT now reports that:
A suspicious package found at Glasgow University shares similarities with small improvised explosive devices sent on Tuesday to major transport hubs of London, the police have confirmed.
Somebody's clearly working overtime. Somebody seeking to influence the Brexit fiasco deadline at the end of this month. Somebody not wannabe-IRA or ISIS...

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TV

Rachel Maddow, Russiagate's Grand Wizard brazenly lies to her audience about Assange

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:31 UTC
rachel maddow wikileaks
© MSNBC
Rachel Maddow
When it was first revealed in November that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is under secret charges by the Trump administration, I spent the next few days being told by Russiagaters that this was proof that I have been wrong about their demented cold war cult all along, because #MuellerTime is fast approaching. At long last, they vehemently assured me, Assange was going to prison for working with Russia to deprive Queen Hillary of her rightful throne.

None of those people have come back to apologize or admit that they were wrong when subsequent evidence disproved their claims. None of them ever do.

As it turns out, whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in a secret case investigating Assange for his 2010 role in the WikiLeaks publication of military war logs and diplomatic cables. Manning served seven years in prison for leaking those documents to the transparency advocacy outlet before her sentence was commuted by President Obama, meaning, obviously, that this sealed case has nothing to do with the 2016 leaks Russiagaters have been fiendishly obsessing over. Indeed, the Washington Post reported yesterday that "U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, say the case is based on [Assange's] pre-2016 conduct, not the election hacks that drew the attention of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III."

Comment: Over the years Rachel Maddow has been a diligent servant to the Deep State. She is a propagandist's dream because no matter how outlandish the claim, she will deliver it with well-polished faux-sincerity. And her audience eats it up.

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Pistol

Over 80 arrested protesting police shooting of unarmed Stephon Clark in Sacramento, CA


RT
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:17 UTC
Sacramento protesters
© AFP/Getty Images North America/Justin Sullivan
Protesters holding images of Stephon Clark in Sacramento, California on March 4, 2019
Police arrested over 80 protesters and detained a reporter in Sacramento, California after scores turned out to demonstrate against a decision not to charge cops who fatally shot 22-year-old Stephon Clark last March.

Clark, an unarmed black man, was holding a cell phone which officers claimed to believe was a gun when they shot him in the backyard of his grandparents' home on 18 March, 2018.

Almost a year after his death, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced the police officers involved would not be charged as they had not committed a crime.

An estimated 100 people gathered in Sacramento around 7pm local time Monday to protest the DA's decision and call for the two officers to be fired, marching through the city with placards bearing photos of Clark.
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