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Bills Across The Country Could Increase Penalties For Protesters
Source: NPR
From the Black Lives Matter movement to environmentalists trying to stop new oil pipelines to the recent Women's March against President Trump, the past year has been filled with large, often spontaneous protests.
Now the reaction to those protests is appearing in a number of Republican-controlled statehouses across the country where lawmakers are introducing proposals to increase penalties for those who block roadways while protesting.
Dakota Access Pipeline Foes: We Aren't Done Fighting Yet
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Dakota Access Pipeline Foes: We Aren't Done Fighting Yet
A bill in Iowa was inspired by a protest against Donald Trump shortly after the November election. More than 100 demonstrators blocked traffic on Interstate 80, just outside of Iowa City, stopping traffic on the busy trucking route for almost a half-hour.
"You're not just stopping traffic," said Republican Senator Jake Chapman about his bill, which would apply to people blocking highways with speeds posted above 55 mph. Violators could get a felony and spend 5 years in prison, plus a fine of up to $7,500
In North Dakota, where protests have gone on for months over construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, a lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow motorists to run over and kill any protester obstructing a highway as long as the driver did not do it intentionally.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512636448/bills-across-the-country-could-increase-penalties-for-protesters
Well, living in a fascist country can be expensive or darn right dangerous
Suspect in Quebec Mosque Attack Quickly Depicted as a Moroccan Muslim. Hes a White Nationalist.
A MASS SHOOTING at a Quebec City mosque last night left six people dead and eight wounded. The targeted mosque, the Cultural Islamic Center of Quebec, was the same one at which a severed pigs head was left during Ramadan last June. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the episode a terrorist attack on Muslims.
Almost immediately, various news outlets and political figures depicted the shooter as Muslim. Right-wing nationalist tabloids in the UK instantly linked it to Islamic violence. Fox News claimed that witnesses said at least one gunman shouted Allahu akbar!, and then added this about the shooters national origin:
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/suspect-in-quebec-mosque-attack-quickly-depicted-as-a-moroccan-muslim-hes-a-white-nationalist/
Merkel 'explains' Geneva refugee convention to Trump in phone call
Source: The Guardian
Donald Trumps executive order to halt travel from seven Muslim-majority countries Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia has provoked a wave of concern and condemnation from international leaders and politicians.
A spokesman for Angela Merkel said the German chancellor regretted Trumps decision to ban citizens of certain countries from entering the US, adding that she had explained the obligations of the Geneva refugee convention to the new president in a phone call on Saturday.
The chancellor regrets the US governments entry ban against refugees and the citizens of certain countries, Merkels spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.She is convinced that the necessary, decisive battle against terrorism does not justify a general suspicion against people of a certain origin or a certain religion.
The Geneva refugee convention requires the international community to take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds. All signatory states are obligated to do. The German government explained this policy in their call yesterday.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/merkel-explains-geneva-refugee-convention-to-trump-in-phone-call?CMP=share_btn_tw
God, how embarrassin
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So what will it be like to have a perverted, disgusting old man as president
From one of my favorite series
Command and Control A nightmare plays out at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in Sept, 1980
PBS American Experience
Full video:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/command-and-control/player/
The Scottish Sunday Herald TV preview of the tRump inauguration:
:largeThe Scottish Sunday Herald TV preview of the tRump inauguration:
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