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US border patrol allows eight people from Central American caravan to cross Mexican border to seek asylum


teleSUR
Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Central American Viacrucis Migrante caravan
© Reuters
Members of the caravan cheered when the group was allowed to cross.
Some 150 others will continue their stay outside San Ysidro for a second-straight night, hoping to be afforded a similar courtesy.

Late Monday, the United States allowed eight people from the Central American "Viacrucis Migrante" caravan to cross the Mexican border into U.S. territory to seek asylum.

Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers ushered the travelers - who have been camped out at the entrance since Sunday - through a door into the San Ysidro port of entry. Members of the caravan cheered when the group was allowed to cross over. The group consists of four children, three women and an 18-year-old male.

"We began processing undocumented arrivals again on Monday," a CBP spokeswoman said, adding that the number of individuals they could process in a day varied. "As in the past when we've had to limit the number of people we can bring in for processing at a given time, we expect that this will be a temporary situation."

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Network

Facebook asks users to report 'hate speech' on every post, then backtracks saying it was an internal 'test' that was launched by mistake

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00 UTC
facebook
UPDATE: Scroll to the bottom for Facebook's response.

On Tuesday, Facebook launched an initiative enabling users to identify "hate speech."

On virtually every single public post, an option has emerged. "Does this post contain hate speech?" the site asks, giving two options: "Yes" or "No." Each post also gives the option to dismiss the question with a tiny "x" box to the right of the answers.

The "hate speech" question even appears on a user's own posts.

facebook hate speech

Comment: Perhaps the test backfired similarly to their recent 'fake news' warnings: Facebook ditches 'fake news' warnings after flagged articles get significantly more shares

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US confirms shipment of Javelin antitank missiles to Ukraine

Christopher Miller
RFE/RL
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:48 UTC
javelin missile
The United States has confirmed to RFE/RL its delivery of American-made, Javelin antitank missile systems to Ukraine in a move that is welcome in Kyiv but will almost certainly enrage Moscow amid a four-year conflict that pits Russia-backed separatists against Ukrainian national troops.

"They have already been delivered," a U.S. State Department official confirmed on April 30 in response to an RFE/RL query on the handover of Javelins.

In a statement posted on Facebook, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko also confirmed the delivery and said his country continues "to strengthen our defense potential in order to repel Russian aggression."

"I am sincerely grateful for the fair decision of [U.S. President] Donald Trump in support of Ukraine, in defense of freedom and democracy," Poroshenko wrote. "Washington not only fulfilled our joint agreement, it demonstrated leadership and an important example."


Comment: Please.


Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak wrote on his Facebook page that Ukrainian troops would begin training with the new weapons on May 2.
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Family

Jackie Chan's daughter blames 'homophobic parents' for leaving her homeless


Sputnik
Tue, 01 May 2018 22:27 UTC
Etta Ng Chok Lam
© YouTube/ E. Zhoulin
International star Jackie Chan's estranged daughter and her girlfriend posted a YouTube video April 24 announcing that they are homeless and no one in their lives is helping them.

Etta Ng Chok Lam is Chan's biological daughter, but has previously claimed not to have a relationship with her father. In the video, Ng and her girlfriend, Andi Autumn, state that they are homeless because of "homophobic parents."


​They also note that police officials, food banks, hospitals and LGBT community shelters have been unable to assist them.

"We've been homeless for a month due to homophobic parents; we've pretty much slept under a bridge and other things," Ng said in the video, reading from a piece of paper.

Autumn also added that she's asked for assistance from friends and family members but no one has helped them.

Comment: They've been sleeping under a bridge for so long they've apparently forgotten that there is this thing called "getting a job". An example of millennial entitlement at its finest.

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Indian man killed at own wedding by celebratory gunfire (VIDEO)


Sputnik
Wed, 02 May 2018 20:15 UTC
Indian groom killed wedding
© Screenshot/ RXG Entertainment
Police in India's Uttar Pradesh state on Tuesday arrested a man accused of killing a groom on his wedding day when shooting off celebratory gunfire during the ceremony on Sunday.

According to Channel News Asia, 25-year-old Sunil Verma was shot and killed late Sunday after one of his friends, Ram Chandra, accidentally shot him in the chest as he was performing a Hindu wedding ritual.

Video of the shooting shows Chandra, who is dressed in orange, firing the gun; Verma then grabs his chest before slumping to the ground. The shooter's face cannot be seen in the recording. Verma died on the way to a nearby hospital.


Comment: Judging by the video, it is hard to see how the shooting could have been accidental. Couldn't the 'friend' have shot in the air rather than straight at the groom who was surrounded by people?

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Some real stories you might have missed while the mainstream media was dumbing us down and obsessing over Michelle Wolf's speech

Rachel Blevins
Free Thought Project
Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Michelle Wolf
The name "Michelle Wolf" has dominated headlines and has become the talk of the mainstream media following the comedian's speech roasting the Trump Administration at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. While everyone seems to have an opinion on Wolf's comments, the fact is that the debate has served as the perfect distraction from several incredibly important news stories from the around the world.

Here are five stories you may have missed while the media was obsessing over Michelle Wolf's speech:

1. Military-industrial Complex Stocks Crashed in Response to a Historic Peace Deal Between North And South Korea

The leaders of North and South Korea reached a historic peace deal this week when they met in person for the first time and agreed to pursue an end to the Korean War. It signaled an incredible breakthrough in diplomacy that also sent the stocks of defense contractors in the United States crashing.

The same stocks that skyrocketed after Trump vowed to meet North Korea with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" in August 2017, fell significantly at the prospect of peace in Korea. Following the meeting, the five largest defense contractors in the U.S. lost more than $10 billion in value. Lockheed Martin (LMT) fell 2.5 percent, Northrop Grumman (NOC) fell 3.4 percent, General Dynamics (GD) fell 3.8 percent, and Boeing (BA) fell less than 1 percent.
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Bullseye

Not really propaganda: 'Russian talking points' are more like well-documented facts

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Wed, 02 May 2018 15:52 UTC
russian talking points
Things aren't looking great for the Democratic establishment, which recently admitted that it stacks its primaries against progressive candidates and is currently engaged in a desperate, hail Mary lawsuit against WikiLeaks for its factual publications about the party. So of course you know what that means.

That's right! It's time for Democratic pundits to begin down-punching Jill Stein.



"Jill Stein is on @NewDay right now repeating Russian talking points on its interference in the 2016 election and on US foreign policy," tweeted CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto today, without shame or self-reflection.

Sciutto was referring to comments Stein made on a CNN interview today about America's undeniable, entirely factual and well-documented history of meddling in other countries' elections, including a citation of an ex-CIA Director's recent admission that the US has interfered in foreign electoral processes and continues to do so to this day.

Because that's what constitutes a "Russian talking point" these days: raw, easily verifiable facts.

Stein's interviewer, Chris "It's illegal to read WikiLeaks" Cuomo, echoed a similar sentiment in response to her points, in essence arguing that only Russians should be stating these blatantly obvious and extremely relevant facts.

Comment: In their hysteria over Russia, it has now come to the point that saying anything at all counter to the narrative is essentially 'Russian propaganda', no matter what the facts are. The absurdity is coming to the point where we'll soon see every dictionary with the word 'Russia' in it will need to be burned - because 'Russia'.

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Question

Whatever happened to the Skripals? UK media and authorities have fallen silent on Salisbury poisoning


RT
Wed, 02 May 2018 11:56 UTC
magnifying glass eye
© Friso Gentsch / Global Look Press
Where are the Skripals?
Sergei Skripal, the poisoned ex-Russian spy, and his daughter Yulia dominated headlines a few weeks ago. Now they've vanished from the public eye, leaving many to wonder what exactly happened.

Yulia apparently recovered enough to leave the hospital and is now thought to be in a safe house, and there have been no updates on Sergei's condition since his daughter walked out of Salisbury District Hospital in early April. Since then, Syrian bomb attacks have dominated British headlines, followed by the Windrush scandal that ended with the shock resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd. Some argue the British media just had its attention diverted, but others suggest something else is at play.

A number of bloggers have spent months questioning the government's narrative on the Skripal attack. Among them is former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray. Murray pointed out a tweet by Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomsen, who said the only "decisive public move by the authorities has been to censor MSM (mainstream media) via a D Notice... from identifying Mr Skripal's handler living nearby."

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Light Saber

Cowboy eyes robber pointing gun at him, slowly takes off his glasses and gets to work! (VIDEO)

Ben Marquis
Conservative Tribune
Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:36 UTC
Cowboy and thug
Just because there are relatively strict gun control laws in Mexico, that doesn't mean criminals won't still get their hands on guns and use them to do their worst.

Thus, it was no surprise to see surveillance video emerge from a butcher shop/convenience store in Monterrey, Mexico which showed a young punk armed with a revolver attempt to hold up the store, according to Fox News.

What was surprising was the entirely nonplussed reaction the young thug received from an older man wearing a cowboy hat who was standing near the cash register, seemingly not intimidated by the armed robber.

Even as the older man had a revolver pointed his direction, he merely removed his glasses and gave the young punk a hard look.

A female customer emerged from the back of the store and started to approach the register, which drew the attention of the armed young man.

It also provided the opening the older man must have been waiting for.


Comment: We should all be that effective under such circumstances! Viva Reynaldo Cardenas!

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Pocket Knife

Still no suspects in Skripal attack, admits UK national security adviser but still blames Russia


RT
Wed, 02 May 2018 08:05 UTC
Sergei Skripal
© wsbuzz.com / Global Look Press
Sergei Skripal
British police still have no suspects in the Skripal poisoning investigation, the UK's national security adviser has admitted to a committee of MPs, despite the government continuing to place blame squarely on Russia.

Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a bench in Salisbury on March 4. They were both taken to hospital in a critical condition after apparently being poisoned by nerve agent A-234 ('Novichok'). Yulia Skripal has since left hospital.

Sir Mark Sedwill, who co-ordinates the work of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, conceded to the Defence Select Committee that the UK is yet to identify the source of the agent used against the Skripals, or even a suspect in the case.

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