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Germany: Tunisian migrant rams his wife with a car, then decapitates her in broad daylight

Arthur Lyons
Voice of Europe
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:39 UTC

Comment: Keep 'em coming, sez the German gubmint...


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© Thorsten Wagner / Global Look Press
Investigators mark the victim's shoe.
Videos have emerged of a Tunisian migrant hacking his wife to death with an ax in broad daylight in the city center of Limburg, Germany.

The 34-year-old North African migrant first slammed into his 31-year-old wife and mother of two with his Audi before he crashed into a wall, leaped out of the vehicle, and began hacking her to death with an ax as onlookers took video, Bild reports.

According to reports from various news outlets, it emerged relatively earlier that the alleged murderer was born in Germany but had a "migration background". However, later reports identified the man as a Tunisian.

The alleged murderer is said to have been angry with his wife for "domestic" reasons. Eyewitnesses have reported that the murder screamed, "You will not cheat on me anymore!" before butchering her to death.

A gruesome video, taken by a local resident from a neighboring house, depicts a dark-haired man in a black tracksuit repeatedly striking a person lying on the ground with an ax. The black Audi, spewing smoke from the crash, can also be seen in the video clip.

Comment: More details from RT:
A demented husband in Limburg, Germany hacked off his estranged wife's head with an ax, after crushing her with his car. The heinous murder was the second shocking crime to hit the quiet city this month.

The 31-year-old victim was out for a walk when she was rammed by the suspect, who reportedly dragged her nearly 30 meters (98 feet) until his vehicle hit the wall of a house. The cold-blooded killer then got out of his car, retrieved an ax from the trunk, and proceeded to savagely hack at woman's body. German media reports say that the maniac struck his wife five times, severing her head. A video that was later scrubbed from the internet due to its extremely graphic nature shows people driving by the scene as they scream in horror.

It's believed that the victim had recently separated from her deranged killer, and had moved, along with her two children, to a local women's shelter. Some reports have identified both the assailant and the victim as German citizens of Tunisian descent, but their nationalities have not been confirmed by the authorities.

The killer is said to have surrendered to police when they arrived at the scene. He remains tight-lipped, however, about why he carried out the disgusting murder.

Some criticized the German media coverage of the crime for avoiding sensitive social and cultural issues surrounding the unthinkable act. Alice Weidel, the Bundestag leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), mocked news outlets for tip-toeing around the assailant's Tunisian descent.


Another AfD member expressed disgust that such "horrors" could play out on the streets of Germany.


The brutal murder caught public and media attention as Germany struggles with its plan to assimilate the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers that have flocked to the country in recent years. The unspeakable crime comes less than a month after a man, who was originally from Syria, used a truck to plow into traffic in Limburg, injuring around 10 people.


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'I'm not going to reconsider': Toronto's top librarian refuses to bar Meghan Murphy, speaker critical of transgender rights

Sheena Goodyear
CBC
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
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© Shawn Benjamin/CBC
Vickery Bowles, city librarian for the Toronto Public Library, says she will not back down from allowing Meghan Murphy to speak at event at one of the library's branches.
Vickery Bowles says letting Meghan Murphy speak is a matter of 'standing up for free speech'

The Toronto Public Library is standing by its decision to rent out space to a third-party event featuring a writer and activist who argues against transgender rights, despite mounting opposition from authors, politicians and the city's mayor.

Meghan Murphy, who runs the website Feminist Current, has argued that "allowing men to identify as women" undermines women's rights, and that transgender women should not be allowed in women's spaces.
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Kanye's new rules for 6-year-old daughter are a revolt against the modern world

Jared Harris
The Western Journal
Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:49 UTC
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At a time when children are so liberated that they run their own lives, dictate rules to parents and can even choose their own gender, one celebrity is beginning to rage against the lunacy that liberalism has created.

In a Tuesday interview with Zane Lowe for Beats 1 radio, Kanye West revealed how Christianity has shaped his worldview and the standards he sets for his own family.


Comment: Sounds like Kanye is really just applying some common sense to the raising of his children. Anyone who thinks stopping a 6-year-old from wearing makeup and revealing clothing is some sort of oppression needs their head examined.

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Not a coward?! WaPo columnist forced to explain he didn't really mean ISIS leader died a hero, just wanted to prove Trump wrong


RT
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:30 UTC
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© Reuters TV; AFP / Getty Images North America / Anna Webber
Washington Post columnist Max Boot was forced to backtrack after offering a strange defense of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, arguing he did not die a "coward," triggering a wave of mockery and outrage online.

One of President Trump's loudest critics right of center, Boot has made a brand out of attacking the commander in chief at every opportunity. However, this week's column presented Boot with a unique challenge: how to spin the news of the jihadi mastermind's death into a jab at the president?

He found a way. Taking issue with President Trump's description of Baghdadi as a "coward," Boot shot back that the so-called Caliph's death by explosive suicide - killing three of his own children in the process - itself proved his bravery. Apparently confident in that take, Boot even pulled the line from his column to post as a standalone tweet, but it soon provoked a torrent of ridicule from commenters online.

Comment: See: Media downplays importance of Baghdadi after Trump announces his death - WaPo calls terrorist mastermind "austere scholar"- UPDATE: WaPo alters headline upon social media backlash

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New York City secretly sending their homeless to over 350 cities - including Honolulu, Houston

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:40 UTC
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New York City officials have been quietly dumping homeless people to more than 370 cities across 32 states, including Honolulu and Houston.

Under Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Special One-Time Assistance Program," (SOTA) local homeless families are given a full year's worth of rent - which has cost NYC taxpayers $89 million on rent alone since August 2017 - before exporting some 5,074 homeless families (12,482 individuals) to cities as far as the South Pacific, according to the New York Post, citing data from the Department of Homeless Services (DHS).
The city also paid travel expenses, through a separate taxpayer-funded program called Project Reconnect, but would not divulge how much it spent. A Friday flight to Honolulu for four people would cost about $1,400. A bus ticket to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the same family would cost $800.

Add to the tab the cost of furnishings, which the city also did not disclose. One SOTA recipient said she received $1,000 for them.

DHS defends the stratospheric costs, saying it actually saves the city on shelter funding — which amounts to about $41,000 annually per family, as compared to the average yearly rent of $17,563 to house families elsewhere. -New York Post
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Political persecution: Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested months after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence

Ben Norton
The Grayzone
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution. By Ben Norton

Max Blumenthal, the editor of the news site The Grayzone, was arrested on the morning of October 25 on a fabricated charge related to the siege of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC that took place between April and May.

A team of DC police officers appeared at Blumenthal's door at just after 9 AM, demanding entry and threatening to break his door down. A number of officers had taken positions on the side of his home as though they were prepared for a SWAT-style raid.

Blumenthal was hauled into a police van and ultimately taken to DC central jail, where he was held for two days in various cells and cages. He was shackled by his hands and ankles for over five hours in one such cage along with other inmates. His request for a phone call was denied by DC police and corrections officers, effectively denying him access to the outside world.

Blumenthal was informed that he was accused of simple assault by a Venezuelan opposition member. He declared the charge completely baseless.
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Hong Kong enters recession as protests continue into 5th month


Reuters
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:29 UTC
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Hong Kong has fallen into recession, hit by five months of anti-government protests that erupted in flames at the weekend, and is unlikely to achieve any growth this year, the city's Financial Secretary said.

Black-clad and masked demonstrators set fire to shops and hurled petrol bombs at police on Sunday following a now-familiar pattern, with police responding with tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets.

TV footage showed protesters, who streamed into the Kowloon hotel and shopping artery of Nathan Road on Sunday, setting fire to street barricades and squirting petrol from plastic bottles on to fires at subway entrances amid running battles with police.

At one station, activists rolled a flaming metal barrel down a long staircase toward police below.

Comment: While citizens have valid grievances against the government, the behavior of some protesters and the money trail demonstrate that these protests are part of a destabilization campaign by Western force against China:

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British govt report on Grenfell tower fire pins tragedy on... the firemen

Robert Booth
The Guardian
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:54 UTC
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British govt: "It's their fault"
The London fire brigade's readiness for the Grenfell Tower fire was "gravely inadequate" and fewer people would have died if it had been better prepared, a long-awaited public inquiry report into the disaster that killed 72 people has concluded.

The report into the biggest single loss of life in London since the second world war also ruled that the building had been refurbished in breach of safety regulations and that contrary to the evidence so far of the cladding panel manufacturer, Arconic, "the principal reason why the flames spread so rapidly up the building" was its aluminium composite panels and the "melting and dripping of burning polyethylene".

The retired high court judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick, who led the inquiry, found that despite senior officers knowing about the risk of cladding fires from high rise blazes abroad, the "preparation and planning for a fire such as Grenfell" by the London fire brigade (LFB) fell far short of what should have been expected.

Comment: Whew, the British govt sure knows how to rig an inquiry so that it comes out smelling like roses.

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GDPR after one year: Astronomical costs to meet EU's epically-failing 'data protection' compliance - Small & medium businesses shutting in droves

Alec Stapp
Truth on the Market
Fri, 24 May 2019 10:24 UTC

Comment: The following analysis was done in May this year. Since then, the costs have continued skyrocketing...


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"Lock it all down. We need to remind these euro-peons who's boss."
GDPR is officially one year old. How have the first 12 months gone? As you can see from the mix of data and anecdotes below, it appears that compliance costs have been astronomical; individual "data rights" have led to unintended consequences; "privacy protection" seems to have undermined market competition; and there have been large unseen — but not unmeasurable! — costs in forgone startup investment. So, all-in-all, about what we expected.

GDPR cases and fines

Here is the latest data on cases and fines released by the European Data Protection Board:
  • €55,955,871 in fines
    • €50 million of which was a single fine on Google
  • 281,088 total cases
    • 144,376 complaints
    • 89,271 data breach notifications
    • 47,441 other
  • 37.0% ongoing
  • 62.9% closed
  • 0.1% appealed

Comment: Google and other big corps are happy to pay the fines. But ALL small and medium businesses across the EU are currently undergoing 'compliance procedures' - audits, effectively, carried out by nominally independent agencies like accounting firms. These companies cannot afford the fines, so they're having to pay for their files being scrutinized for compliance on customers' data protection. The smallest firms are paying around 1,000 euros each...


Unintended consequences of new data privacy rights

GDPR can be thought of as a privacy "bill of rights." Many of these new rights have come with unintended consequences. If your account gets hacked, the hacker can use the right of access to get all of your data. The right to be forgotten is in conflict with the public's right to know a bad actor's history (and many of them are using the right to memory hole their misdeeds). The right to data portability creates another attack vector for hackers to exploit. And the right to opt-out of data collection creates a free-rider problem where users who opt-in subsidize the privacy of those who opt-out.

Comment: Hundreds if not thousands more will be added to that list by the time this bloodbath is through. Great governance there, EU. No wonder you're so popular in Europe...

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Putin orders introduction of criminal punishment for online drugs propaganda


RT
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:54 UTC
syringes
© Sputnik / Vladimir Trefilov
Using the internet to promote drugs and persuade people to take prohibited substances will become a criminal offense in Russia under new amendments to legislation ordered by President Vladimir Putin.

The amendments also cover mood-altering synthetic cannabinoids such as Spice. Russia's consumer watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, had earlier said these substances caused over 110 deaths in the country between 2016 and 2018.

Putin has endorsed the proposed law, which would ban the publication of information on ways of cooking and distributing psychoactive substances on the internet. He has also instructed the Interior Ministry to increase the number of police officers involved in tackling the illegal drug trade, both on the internet and offline.

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