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Linda Sarsour Has Raised $80K For Anti-Muslim Hate Crime That Did Not Happen
Post Date: 2017-06-06 08:03:12 by HomerBohn
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Activist Linda Sarsour has raised more than $80,000 for a Somali woman who claims she was attacked by a white man in a hate crime, but there’s much more to the story, the two people accused of the hate attack tell The Daily Caller. Sarsour started the fundraiser for Rahma Warsame, a 40-year-old single mother who lives in Columbus, Ohio, who says she was attacked on Saturday night by a white man while defending a friend. Sarsour, a leader in the pro-Palestine cause who has come under fire for her sympathetic views on sharia law, posted a picture of Warsame in the hospital and said that she has four missing teeth, a swollen face, swollen nose and busted lip. In her fundraising ...
Teens sentenced in fatal school bathroom attack
Post Date: 2017-06-05 20:44:56 by cranky
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A 17-year-old Delaware girl convicted in a school bathroom attack that left a 16-year-old classmate dead was sentenced Monday to six months in a juvenile facility. The girl was convicted of criminally negligent homicide by a Family Court judge in April in the 2016 death of Amy Joyner-Francis. Cellphone video of the attack shows Joyner-Francis struggling to fight back and escape as she is repeatedly hit and kicked in the head while her assailant holds on to her hair. The convicted teen will be sent to a secure, residential treatment program for juvenile delinquents. After her release, she will face additional court supervision and programs until age 19, followed by two years’ probation. ...
Signed as Law: Nevada Legalizes Commercial Hemp Production, Despite Federal Prohibition
Post Date: 2017-06-05 09:45:12 by Deckard
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Today, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill into law to legalize commercial industrial hemp production in the state, despite a federal ban on the same. Passage into law sets the foundation to nullify federal prohibition in practice and effect within the state. A bipartisan coalition of 12 legislators introduced Senate Bill 396 (SB396) in March. The legislation would authorize the cultivation of industrial hemp for commercial purposes and the production of agricultural hemp seed in Nevada. The new law expands current law that only allows an institution of higher education or the Nevada Department of Agriculture to cultivate industrial hemp for research purposes conducted ...
American Airlines Called Cops on Double Amputee After Forgetting His Wheelchair, Lawsuit Says
Post Date: 2017-06-05 09:34:33 by Deckard
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As the American Airlines plane full of passengers looked on, two law enforcement officers escorted Michael Mennella — a double amputee with no feet — down the aisle and into the airport. They told him he was under arrest for extreme intoxication. But soon enough, the officers realized Mennella was sober. He’d simply hobbled down the aisle to ask for a drink on a flight that departed Miami without the wheelchair the airline had promised him. That’s what Mennella, a businessman traveling for work, claims in a new lawsuit that’s sure to fuel more anger at airlines for horribly mistreating their passengers. “As demonstrated by police-administered field ...
Wisconsin Court Strikes Down Ban on Homemade Baked-Good Sales
Post Date: 2017-06-05 05:29:20 by Deckard
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Wisconsin just "became a little freer, and a lot more delicious," as the law firm the Institute for Justice (IJ) put it. On Wednesday, a state circuit court struck down Wisconsin's ban on selling home-baked items such as bread, cookies, cakes, and muffins. The rule has "no real or substantial connection" to consumer protection, Judge Duane Jorgenson wrote in his decision declaring the law unconstitutional. Wisconsin is one of only two states with such rules (New Jersey is the other), leaving 48 states where homemade baked goods are peddled willy-nilly. No one in these states has suffered serious injury or illness from an improperly-made baked good, Jorgenson noted. ...
Brooklyn Tech won’t serve food at the prom until 9PM, after RAMADAN FAST ends for the day
Post Date: 2017-06-03 11:00:49 by HomerBohn
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Brooklyn Tech is a public school. Why are they accommodating the Ramadan Fast? What happened to the separation of religion and state that required no presence of religion in the public schools, for which the ACLU fought for so many years? Now suddenly Islamic observance is fine in public schools, and you’re a racist-islamofauxbic-anti-muslim-bigot if you complain. “Brooklyn school won’t move prom over Ramadan conflict,” by Kemberly Richardson, WABC, May 23, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia): FORT GREENE, Brooklyn (WABC) — Brooklyn Tech seniors will gather at Pier Sixty for the prom on June 3, but not all their classmates will be able to attend the big bash at the ...
Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate travel ban
Post Date: 2017-06-03 10:55:33 by HomerBohn
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Good news. Step one in overthrowing the over-throwers. President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations after it was blocked by lower courts that found it was discriminatory. Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate travel ban. NY Post, June 2, 2017: WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate its ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries. The Justice Department filing to the high court late Thursday argues that the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, made several mistakes in ruling against the Trump travel policy. The government ...
Court Sets Ominous Precedent: Informing Jurors of Their Rights Is Now ILLEGAL [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-06-03 10:38:54 by Deckard
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Big Rapids, MI — As constitutional rights are steadily eroded in the U.S. through the burgeoning police/surveillance state, one case in Michigan provides an example of just how dire the situation has gotten. Keith Woods, a resident of Mecosta County, was charged and recently convicted for the “crime” of standing on a public sidewalk and handing out fliers about juror rights. Woods was exercising his First Amendment rights and raising awareness about something the courts deliberately fail to tell jurors when beginning a trial – jury nullification, or the right to vote one’s conscience. For this, Woods – a father of eight and former pastor – was charged with ...
Targeting Trump – Kathy Griffin in 2016: “my edge is that I’ll go direct for Barron.”…
Post Date: 2017-06-02 13:33:07 by Deckard
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Against the backdrop of Kathy Griffin producing a video where she decapitated President Donald Trump; and yesterday hiring attorney Lisa Bloom to conduct a press conference scheduled for today, it is worth noting an interview Ms. Griffin gave to Vulture Media at the Equality Now Gala in December of 2016: […] “So I’m happy to deliver beat down to Donald Trump — and also to Barron. You know a lot of comics are going to go hard for Donald, my edge is that I’ll go direct for Barron. I’m going to get in ahead of the game.” (link) . (screen grab link) […] “It’s not about trying to be an equal-opportunity offender anymore because ...
Cops Hunt Dirt Bikers That Jumped Collapsed Bridge Like Evel Knievel
Post Date: 2017-06-02 11:03:23 by Deckard
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North Carolina police are trying to identify a pair of daredevils seen in a viral video jumping over a collapsed section of a closed bridge.The video, which you can see on this post to Facebook on Tuesday by Hickory resident Colt Howell, shows two dirt bikers taking turns jumping the gap before a small group of onlookers. From Yahoo!:Trooper Will Henning with the North Carolina Highway Patrol told HuffPost the bridge featured in the video is located in Granite Falls. It reportedly collapsed earlier this month, prompting the North Carolina Department of Transportation to place cement barricades on each side of the bridge. The riders moved at least one of the barricades to complete the ...
Bilderberg 2017 is Here: The Rockefeller/Rothschild Hub Meets to Discuss Trump’s Presidency (Will Trump Attend?)
Post Date: 2017-06-02 06:31:32 by Deckard
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“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march toward a world government. . . . The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” – David Rockefeller (source) The above statement comes ...
House Overwhelmingly Supports Bill Subjecting Teen Sexters to 15 Years in Federal Prison
Post Date: 2017-06-02 06:05:08 by Deckard
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Teens who text each other explicit images could be subject to 15 years in federal prison under a new bill that just passed the House of Representatives. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, has called the measure "deadly and counterproductive." "While the bill is well intended, it is overbroad in scope and will punish the very people it indicates it is designed to protect: our children," Lee said during a House floor debate over the bill. The bill would also raise "new constitutional concerns" and "exacerbate overwhelming concerns with the unfair and unjust mandatory minimum sentencing that ...
Teen Must Get $110 Business License to Cut Lawns for $20
Post Date: 2017-06-02 05:58:48 by Deckard
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Mayor says he wants to fix the problem by creating other types of licenses.Out in the suburbs, cutting grass in the summertime is one of those classic starter jobs, an opportunity for teenagers to get out of the house, make a little money, and gain a little independence. Everyone's got a lawn, no one wants to mow it, and, hey, all these kids don't have anything to do while they're out of school for a few months. Alainna Parris, of Gardendale, Ala., was engaged in that bit of Americana this spring, offering to cut her neighbors' lawns for $20, $30, or $40. She was, that is, until someone working for another lawn service threatened to report her to city officials for cutting ...
Cop Who Killed 12yo Tamir Rice on Video Finally Fired, But Not for Killing a Child
Post Date: 2017-05-31 11:46:30 by Deckard
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Cleveland, OH — In November of 2014, Officer Timothy Loehmann gunned down a 12-year-old boy for playing with a toy gun in a park. More than two years would pass, during which this cop would fail to be indicted for the murder of Tamir, before any semblance of accountability would occur. On Tuesday, officials announced that Loehmann has finally been fired from department — but not for killing a boy with a toy gun — for “providing false information” on his application to be a cop. Timothy Loehmann’s termination is “effective immediately,” Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said at press conference Tuesday as he announced the end of a years-long ...
5 Cops Removed from Dept After Killing Parents Asleep in a Car While on a Date
Post Date: 2017-05-31 11:37:54 by Deckard
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Inglewood, CA — After taking the lives of Kisha Michael, 31, and Marquintan Sandlin, 32, who had fallen asleep in their car while on a date, the five officers who fired the 20 rounds into the car have been removed from the department. The announcement from Mayor James T. Butts on Tuesday marked the end of an internal probe stemming from the killing of the couple on Feb 21, 2016. Despite their removal from the department, the punishment they received, if any, remains entirely secret. “The officers involved in the incident are no longer members of the Inglewood Police Department,” Butts said in his statement. “The department’s report and any discipline that ...
Government Hype Helps Terrorists
Post Date: 2017-05-31 09:16:51 by Deckard
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The Department of Homeland Security makes terrorism more effective by exaggerating the threat it poses.John Kelly, the secretary of homeland security, seems to be moonlighting as a publicist for ISIS. How else to explain his fearmongering warnings about terrorism on Fox News last Friday?"I was telling Steve on the way in here," Kelly said, referring to Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy, "if he knew what I know about terrorism, he'd never leave the house in the morning." Kelly's remarks, which seemed designed to put a damper on everyone's plans for Memorial Day weekend, complemented the efforts of terrorists, who aim to provoke an emotional response that ...
Court to Grandma: You Shouldn't Lose Your House Just Because Your Dumb Son Sold Some Weed There
Post Date: 2017-05-31 09:12:25 by Deckard
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Four years after the Philadelphia District Attorney seized her house without ever charging her with a crime, a 72-year-old grandmother has prevailed at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where justices strengthened protections for property owners against civil asset forfeiture. In a unanimous opinion issued last Thursday, the Philadelphia Supreme Court tightened the rules for seizing property, ruling that, although police and prosecutors have the authority to take property used in illegal activities, there must be clear evidence that the property owner knew of and agreed to the crimes. Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police can seize property suspected of being connected to a crime, even if ...
In The Land of The Free, California Farmer Fined $2.8M for Plowing His Own Field
Post Date: 2017-05-30 06:20:01 by Deckard
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The California farmer who became the poster child for EPA reform under President Donald Trump is being fined $2.8 million by state and federal regulators for plowing his own field in Tehama County. According to a story in the Redding Record Searchlight: “The case is the first time that we’re aware of that says you need to get a (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) permit to plow to grow crops,” said Anthony Francois, an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation. “We’re not going to produce much food under those kinds of regulations,” he said. However, U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller agreed with the Army Corps in a judgment issued in June 2016. A penalty ...
The Black and Blue Bill
Post Date: 2017-05-30 06:03:32 by Deckard
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Naturally, the solution to the problem of police abusing their authority is to hold them less accountable when they do exactly that.Leave it to “law and order” Republicans such as Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Ted Poe to evolve such logic. They have put forth the Black and Blue – whoops, Back the Blue – act (see here) which would make it harder to sue run-amok law enforcers in civil court to recover damages resulting from actions undeniably illegal – while at the same time imposing more severe penalties on Mundanes who affront the holy person of a law enforcer than those imposed on Mundanes who do exactly the same thing.As regards the first:So long as ...
Scoop: Trump tells confidants U.S. will quit Paris climate deal
Post Date: 2017-05-28 16:04:21 by cranky
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President Trump has privately told multiple people, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave the Paris agreement on climate change, according to three sources with direct knowledge. Publicly, Trump's position is that he has not made up his mind and when we asked the White House about these private comments, Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks said, "I think his tweet was clear. He will make a decision this week." Why this matters: Pulling out of Paris is the biggest thing Trump could to do unravel Obama's climate policies. It also sends a stark and combative signal to the rest of the world that working with other nations on climate ...
Mississippi shooting: 8 dead, including deputy; suspect says 'I ain't fit to live'
Post Date: 2017-05-28 13:09:50 by misterwhite
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A Mississippi deputy sheriff was among eight people shot and killed Saturday and a suspect in the murders was in custody, The Daily Leader reports. The suspect, Willie Cory Godbolt, 35, confessed to the The Jackson Clarion-Ledger on video. “I ain’t fit to live, not after what I done,” Godbolt told the paper Sunday after he was apprehended. “Not in y’all eyes, not in nobody else’s eyes.” He said that he went to an address in Bogue Chitto to talk about his children. At some point neighbors called police, and that's when the deputy arrived. "My pain wasn't designed for him. He was just there," Godbolt told the paper as he sat on the ...
Author: John Lennon ‘Murdered by CIA-trained Killer to Stop ex-Beatle Radicalising Youth’
Post Date: 2017-05-26 17:43:59 by Deckard
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Singer, songwriter, and Beatle, John Lennon didn’t meet his fate at the hands of a deranged fan, according to a book; instead, his killer received training from the CIA and other U.S. Intelligence agencies — and not for his music. Author John Potash claims the U.S. government wanted Lennon erased for his robust influence promoting what it deemed “radical leftist” ideologies. In essence, dissenting opinion coupled with massive popularity brought to fruition Lennon’s killing. But United States Intelligence mavens didn’t shake perturbance with dissent after Mark David Chapman ended Lennon’s four decades of life with a hail of gunfire outside the ...
Alaska Cops Fight for the Right to Sexually Exploit Prostitution Suspects
Post Date: 2017-05-26 06:10:00 by Deckard
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Once again, cops are arguing that they need to be allowed to have sex with suspects in order to investigate prostitution allegations. And once again, lawmakers and journalists are acting like exploitation and assault of sex workers by law enforcement is a rare occurrence, rather than a national epidemic.Most people would agree that the deception, the power differential, and the subsequent arrest of sex workers make such contact utterly unacceptable, even if they don't think that it rises to the level of rape. Yet the behavior is common enough to bring police unions to its defense on a regular basis. This month the fight is in Alaska, where the Anchorage Police Department is opposing two ...
Video shows deputies forcibly removing elderly woman from train station seat
Post Date: 2017-05-26 06:04:16 by Deckard
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LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies are being criticized for the way they treated an elderly woman who refused to leave a reserved seating area in a train station in downtown Los Angeles. CBS Los Angeles reports sheriff's deputies forcibly removed the 76-year-old woman from her seat in Union Station. Her friend, who only wishes to be identified as Tina, captured the disturbing incident on video. In the clip, the woman is heard repeatedly saying, "You are hurting me," as two sheriff's deputies place her in handcuffs. Tina says her friend often sits in the reserved seating area at the train station and is rarely bothered. She has a ...
Meet the Real Jared Kushner
Post Date: 2017-05-25 19:33:54 by Willie Green
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He’s a lot tougher than he looks. He was supposed to be the calm one, cool and unflappable under his Ray-Bans and beltless blue bespoke suits. If Steve Bannon was the Rumpelstiltskin of the administration, donning multiple half-tucked dress shirts at a time and always carrying a clutch of briefing papers and barreling through the administrative state, Jared Kushner, through pedigree and temperament, could reach out one of his long, elegant fingers and tap everyone in the West Wing on the shoulder and urge them to just cool out a bit. In a White House sullied by ties to Russia and all sorts of unsavory characters from the fringe, Kushner was set to float above, surrounding himself with ...
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