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Arun Gupta | Trump's Plan to 'Make America Great Again' Is Ethnic Cleansing 
 
Arun Gupta, teleSUR 
Gupta writes: "When Trump says, 'Make America Great Again,' his followers understand he is really saying, 'Make America White Again.'" 
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John Oliver Tells US Voters to Get to the Polls: 'No Outcome Is Certain' 
Benjamin Lee, Guardian UK 
Lee writes: "John Oliver has warned voters not to take a Democratic victory for granted on Tuesday and stressed the importance of going out to vote." 
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#JoshuaBeal Shot and Killed by Chicago Police 
Angela Bronner Helm, The Root 
Bronner Helm writes: "A 25-year-old Indianapolis man, who was in Chicago for his cousin's funeral, was killed Saturday afternoon by an off-duty police officer in the city's predominantly Irish-Catholic Mount Greenwood neighborhood, according to reports." 
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Nine Ways the US Voting System Is Rigged but Not Against Donald Trump 
Jon Schwarz, The Intercept 
Schwarz writes: "Donald Trump is right - the U.S. voting system is totally rigged! It's not rigged against him, though. It's rigged against people without much money, and people who are members of any number of minority groups." 
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Fuels Voter Intimidation Fears With Arizona Plans 
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK 
Pilkington writes: "Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who has been charged with criminal contempt in a racial discrimination case, is preparing to deploy his deputies at polling stations on election day in a move that voting rights activists warn amounts to intimidation." 
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Women Across France Will Leave Work at 4:34 PM Today Over Pay Disparity 
James McAuley, The Washington Post 
McAuley writes: "An activist group is urging French women to stop working Monday at 4:34 p.m. local time to protest gender inequalities that still affect many French workplaces. The specific time, the group says, marks the end of 85 percent of the working year. 'The remaining 38.2 working days represent the difference in salary between men and women,' wrote the group, Les Glorieuses, in a statement published on its website." 
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Major Quake Near Oklahoma Oil Hub Causes Substantial Damage 
Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press 
Juozapavicius writes: "Dozens of buildings sustained 'substantial damage' after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck an Oklahoma town that's home to one of the world's key oil hubs, but officials said Monday that no damage has been reported at the oil terminal." 
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RSN: Tar Sands Pipeline Shut Down, US Military Operations Are Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds, Man-Made Global Warming Root Cause of Relentless Forest Fires,

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BREAKING: Tar Sands Pipeline Shut Down 
 
Afrin Sopariwala, Tim DeChristopher's Website 
DeChristopher writes: "This morning, 5 activists have successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United States delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock. Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe." 
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US Military Operations Are Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds 
Murtaza Hussain and Cora Currier, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of 'homegrown' terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to 'radicalization,' concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts."
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Donald Trump's Open Disdain for the Rule of Law 
Bridgette Dunlap, Rolling Stone 
Dunlap writes: "Trump acts like he's running to be America's dictator rather than the president of a nation of laws." 
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Federal Government Files Criminal Charges Against Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio Over Racial Profiling 
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Yu Hsi Lee writes: "U.S. Department of Justice officials say that they will file criminal contempt-of-court charges against Arpaio because he wouldn't stop targeting immigrants and Latinos in spite of a judge's order, the Associated Press reported." 
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Divest From Prisons, Invest in People - What Justice for Black Lives Really Looks Like 
Liza Bayless, Yes! Magazine 
Bayless writes: "Instead of addressing the roots of uncomfortable issues such as drug addiction, mental illness, and poverty, we've come to accept policing and incarceration as catch-all solutions. This disproportionally affects African Americans." 
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Yes to Peace! Colombians Occupy Bogota for an End to War 
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Excerpt: "Protesters have pledged to keep occupying the square in front of Colombia's Congress until a political solution to the stalemate on peace is confirmed." 
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Man-Made Global Warming Root Cause of Relentless Forest Fires 
Paul Brown, Climate News Network 
Brown writes: "Climate change has already doubled the number of forest fires in the western U.S. since the 1980s - and it is a trend that will continue to increase, according to new research." 
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RSN: Why Are Democrats so Bad at Talking About Climate Change?, 3 More Top DNC Execs Resign Over Hack

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Dennis J Bernstein | Sheriff Arpaio Paved the Way for Trump 
 
Dennis J Bernstein, Consortium News 
Bernstein writes: "Before there was Donald Trump and his promise of a 'beautiful wall' across the U.S.-Mexican border there was Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Arizona who pushed cruel treatment of illegal immigrants and other Latinos." 
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3 More Top DNC Execs Resign Over Hack 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "The resignations are the latest fallout from the hacked emails, which exposed an apparent lack of neutrality in the primary race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, with some party officials disparaging Sanders." 
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Police Asked Facebook to Deactivate Korryn Gaines' Social Media Accounts Before Killing Her 
CBS News 
Excerpt: "Before the police standoff with Korryn Gaines ended with her death, and a 5-year-old child shot in the arm, police contacted Facebook and requested that her social media profiles be deactivated, said Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson." 
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Donald Trump Kicks Crying Baby Out of Campaign Event 
Meg Anderson, NPR News 
Anderson writes: "Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a history of barring people from his campaign events. He's banned reporters from the Washington Post and anti-Trump protesters are routinely escorted out. And now a baby joins their ranks outside the perimeters." 
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Iraq War Resisters Who Fled to Canada Ask Justin Trudeau to Allow Them to Stay 
Ashifa Kassam, Guardian UK 
Kassam writes: "Years after crossing the border to avoid heading back to war, former US soldiers live in fear of being deported home to face potential jail time for desertion." 
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US Border Patrol to Pay Woman for Illegal Cavity Searches 
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Excerpt: "A Mexican-American has been awarded US$475,000 for traumatic cavity searches carried out by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in December 2012, according to a statement by the ACLU, which represented her." 
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Why Are Democrats so Bad at Talking About Climate Change? 
Rebecca Leber, Grist 
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RSN: Neocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill, Sheldon Adelson to Spend $100 Million Helping Trump Get Elected

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Parry writes: "Hillary Clinton wants the American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world."
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In Racial Profiling Lawsuit, Ariz. Judge Rules Sheriff Arpaio in Contempt of Court
Merrit Kennedy, NPR
Kennedy writes: "An Arizona judge has ruled that Joe Arpaio, who calls himself 'America's toughest sheriff,' is in civil contempt of court. Judge G. Murray Snow says Arpaio has repeatedly and knowingly disobeyed his orders to cease policing tactics against Latinos that he says amount to systemic racial profiling."
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Sheldon Adelson to Spend $100 Million Helping Trump Get Elected
Jonathan Martin, The New York Times
Martin writes: "The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson told Donald J. Trump in a private meeting last week that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he has to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million, according to two Republicans with direct knowledge of Mr. Adelson's commitment."
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Pfizer Ends Drug Sales for Use in Executions, Cutting Off Last Open-Market Source for Lethal Injection Drugs
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "After pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on Friday that it will clamp down on the distribution of its drugs so that they can no longer be used in executions, any state that wants to use lethal injection will now have to resort to getting them on underground markets."
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Philly Police Admit They Disguised a Spy Truck as a Google Streetview Car
Motherboard
Excerpt: "The Philadelphia Police Department admitted today that a mysterious unmarked license plate surveillance truck disguised as a Google Maps vehicle, which Motherboard first reported on this morning, is its own."
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US Failing to Monitor Whether Billions in Weapons Shipped to Egypt Are Being Used in Human Rights Abuses
Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor
Pecquet writes: "The Egyptian government is hindering Washington's ability to track billions of dollars worth of anti-aircraft missiles and other US weapons, the US government watchdog said in a blistering report just as Congress gets ready to renew the annual $1.3 billion request. 'The US government completed some, but not all, human rights vetting required by State policy before providing training or equipment to Egyptian security forces,' the GAO report states."
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Will One of the World's Most Endangered Whales Be Saved Before It's Too Late?
Alicia Graef, Care2
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Conservationists took legal action this week to get protection for one of the 

most endangered species of whales on earth. (photo: Thinkstock)

onservationists took legal action this week to get protection for one of the most endangered species of whales on Earth.

The whales in question are a a genetically distinct population of Bryde’s whales who were only recently discovered. Bryde’s whales can be found in tropical and subtropical waters around the world, but these whales are year-round residents of the Gulf of Mexico who live mainly in the DeSoto Canyon, off the Florida panhandle.

Genetic testing conducted by the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center recently concluded these whales are a genetically distinct subspecies, if not an entirely new species altogether. In addition to being genetically unique, they also have a distinctive song unlike the calls of other Bryde’s whales and are the only baleen whales living in the Gulf.

Unfortunately, at the time of their discovery the best estimate of their population put their number at fewer than 50 individuals, which raised concerns that they are one of the most endangered whales on earth who will likely disappear entirely without intervention.

In 2014, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) took action on their behalf and petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to have them listed under the Endangered Species Act, arguing they face a slew of threats putting them at serious risk of extinction.

“This is a unique group of whales, different from all others of its kind and it’s threatened six ways to Sunday,” Michael Jasny, director of NRDC’s Marine Mammal Protection Project and lead author of the petition, said at the time. “An Endangered Species listing would bring a recovery plan and the resources needed to save these animals … they just can’t make it in the Gulf if we don’t help them out.”

Not only are they isolated with little genetic diversity, but they face a host of problems from human activity that range from noise and organic pollution and being hit by ships to disturbances from energy exploration and living with the toxic aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Last year, samples taken from a Bryde’s whale in the area found a buildup of two metals, chromium and nickel, which raised yet more concerns for them because their calves are particularly vulnerable to toxic buildup that is passed on by their mothers when they’re pregnant and nursing.

Things were looking up last year after the National Marine Fisheries Service finally agreed that they need endangered species protection, which would lead to the development of a recovery plan and designation of critical habitat, but the agency has yet to take action on their behalf and it’s gone well beyond the timeframe legally allowed.

This week, the NRDC took legal action to speed things up, which will hopefully compel federal officials to enact protection for these whales before it’s too late to save them.

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CLG: Tihange nuclear power plant evacuated after dozens killed in Brussels terror attacks, You Can't Live Here If You Are Voting for Donald Trump - Landlord

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Tihange nuclear power plant evacuated after dozens killed in Brussels terror attacks --Workers at the power plant have been evacuated after dozens were killed during attacks in Brussels this morning | 22 March 2016 | A major nuclear power plant in Belgium has been partially evacuated following this morning's terror attacks. Workers at the Tihange nuclear power plant are now leaving the building. University Libre de Bruxelles has also been evacuated as a precaution. In a tweet, the ULB said "in the light of the latest information we have received, we are obliged to evacuate the campuses."

 

Wow! What are the odds?! Wounded missionary Mason Wells was in Boston bombings, Paris attacks, and Brussels terror explosions --Mormon Missionaries From Utah Among Belgian Bombing Survivors | 22 March 2016 | They had just dropped off a fellow missionary at the Brussels Airport on Tuesday when an explosion ripped through the building. In a sickening flash, three Mormon missionaries [aka CIA] were badly hurt in the latest terror attack to hit Europe -- a deadly attack that killed at least 31 and injured more than 200. The three missionaries -- all from Utah -- were identified by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as Elder Richard Norby, 66, of Lehi; Elder Joseph Empey, 20, of Santa Clara; and Elder Mason Wells, 19, of Sandy..."He had only been in Brussels for six weeks," Wells's weeping mother, Kymberley Wells, told NBC News...This was not Wells's first brush with terror. He was in Boston to watch his mother run the marathon in 2013 when two Chechen immigrant brothers set off shrapnel-filled bombs that killed three and wounded scores more, his family said. Wells was also in Paris this past November when the French capital was attacked by Belgium-based terrorists, the family said.

 

U.S. Said to Tighten Security for Air, Rail, Port Facilities | 22 March 2016 | The U.S. government is stepping up security measures in response to Tuesday's bombings in Brussels as President Barack Obama pledged to do "whatever is necessary" to help bring the perpetrators to justice. Security will be tightened at airports, rail stations and ports in the U.S. in response to the deadly attacks in Belgium, according to a government official briefed on the plan. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is expected to make an announcement later Tuesday, said the official, who wasn't authorized to disclose the plans and asked not to be identified. The stepped-up security includes assigning additional law enforcement personnel to the facilities, the official said.

 

Brussels on Highest Alert Level After 31 Killed in Bombings --More than 180 injured in three explosions in Belgian capital --Brussels at standstill as authorities search for more bombs | 22 March 2016 | Belgium was on the highest terror-alert level after three bombings in Brussels on Tuesday killed at least 31, injured more than 180 and raised fears of follow-up attacks. Prime Minister Charles Michel, condemning the deadliest terror attack on Belgian soil ever as "a violent and cowardly" assault, deployed Belgium's military to secure the capital after two explosions at the airport and a bombing at a subway station a short walk from the European Union’s headquarters.

 

Brussels in lockdown after three explosions hit airport, metro | 22 March 2016 | Bombs struck the Brussels airport and a metro station in the heart of the city during the morning rush hour Tuesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as the city was locked down amid heightened security threats. The two airport blasts, at least one of which was blamed on a suicide bomber, left behind a chaotic scene of splattered blood in the departure lounge as windows were blown out, ceilings collapsed and travellers streamed out of the smoky building.

 

Police make raids as suspect sought in Brussels attacks | 22 March 2016 | Multiple explosions rocked Brussels Tuesday at the airport and in the city's subway system - prompting a lockdown of the Belgian capital and heightened security across Europe...The blasts have killed at least 34 people and put the Belgian city on its highest terror alert level. Mayor Yvan Majeur said at least 20 people have died and 106 people were injured in the attack on the Maelbeek subway station, which is close to the European Union headquarters. Other officials said 14 people were killed and 81 were wounded in twin explosions at the Brussels airport. That puts the total number of injured at 187.

 

'Shut our borders': Donald Trump calls for the surveillance of Muslims on US soil and advocates waterboarding terror suspects after Brussels attack | 22 March 2016 | Donald Trump commented on the suicide bombings that occurred in Brussels Tuesday morning just hours after the brutal terror attacks. 'Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels was. Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant and smart!' wrote the Republican front-runner on Twitter. Trump then said in an interview on Fox News the US needs to 'shut the borders,' a statement he repeated later in the morning while appearing on Today. In that appearance he also told Matt Lauer he is a firm believer in using torture to get information from people behind attacks like the one in Brussels, stating; 'Waterboarding is fine.'

 

Stocks slide, safe-haven assets rise after Brussels attacks | 22 March 2016 | World stocks fell and safe-haven gold and government bonds rose on Tuesday after attacks on the airport and a rush-hour metro train in Brussels that triggered security alerts across western Europe. Travel sector stocks including airlines and hotels fell the most, pulling the broader indices down from multi-week highs, although stocks had clawed back some of their losses by midday and bonds and gold eased back from their earlier highs. U.S. futures pointed to a fall of almost half of one percent at the open on Wall Street.

 

Paris terror suspect was planning new attacks, Belgian official says | 20 March 2016 | Belgium’s foreign minister, Didier Reynders, said Sunday that terror suspect Salah Abdeslam, who was wanted in the terror attacks that shook Paris in November, was planning more attacks while he was hiding in Brussels. Until police found him Friday in the Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels, he had been organizing a new "network of people" to launch assaults in European countries, Reynders said. Europe's most-wanted man, Abdeslam, 26, is the last known living operative connected to the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris, where 130 people were killed and many more were injured across the French capital. He eluded authorities for four months.

 

Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam 'shot' in terror raid in Belgium | 18 March 2016 | [Alleged] Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam has reportedly been caught alive in a massive terror raid by Belgian police. Two men have been shot, one of which is reportedly Abdeslam, who has been on the run since the atrocities committed in the French capital last year, according to Belgian newspaper La Libre. At least two terror operations took place in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Friday afternoon. The Belgian army also attended the scene, where 10 shots were heard and police used grenades before special forces entered the property in Molenbeek.

 

Gunmen attack EU military training base in Mali capital | 21 March 2016 | Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in Mali's capital Bamako that had been converted into a base for a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission's personnel. A witness said the attack targeted Bamako's Nord-Sud Hotel, headquarters for the mission of nearly 600 EU military personnel deployed to Mali to train its security forces.

 

More Marines headed to Iraq to fight ISIS after rocket attack | 20 March 2016 | The U.S. is sending a detachment of Marines to Iraq following a deadly attack on a coalition base in northern Iraq that left one Marine dead and eight more injured. The Marines and sailors headed to Iraq are with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, according to the U.S. task force running the war against the Islamic State group. It is not immediately clear how many Marines and sailors from the 26th MEU are deploying to Iraq or whether they are replacing any of the Marines injured in Saturday’s rocket attack.

 

Marine from Camp Lejeune killed by rocket fire in Iraq | 20 March 2016 | The U.S. Department of Defense says a coalition service member killed Saturday by enemy fire in northern Iraq was a Marine from Southern California. Officials say in a press release Sunday that Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, of Temecula, died March 19 from wounds suffered when his unit was hit by rocket fire. A U.S. official told The Associated Press on Saturday that the attack occurred at the Makhmour base outside the Islamic State group-held city of Mosul.

 

2 Americans killed in Istanbul attack | 19 March 2016 | Two Americans were killed in an Istanbul suicide bombing Saturday, according to a White House release. The two Americans were among five people killed in a suicide attack in the Turkish city, and dozens more were injured. Two Israelis and one Iranian citizen were also killed in Saturday’s attack. CNN is reporting that the two Israelis were dual Israeli-American citizens, citing a source within the Israeli government.

 

Section of DIA evacuated because of possible suspicious package --Denver police have cleared part of main terminal on west side; DPD bomb squad on scene | 22 March 2016 | A section of Denver International Airport has been evacuated because of a possible suspicious package, officials said Tuesday. The Denver Police Department bomb squad is on scene. Denver police have cleared a part of the main terminal on the west side between doors 600 and 610 on level six and 500 to 510 on level five, according to an airport tweet. Level five is the bag claim and passenger pickup level, and level six is for passenger drop-off and check-in. Updated: No threat found at DIA; west side of main terminal to re-open.

 

White House shares candid behind-the-scenes pictures from historic Cuba trip --White House photographer Pete Souza released a set of images from the president's trip to Cuba on Monday | 21 March 2016 | In a candid picture snapped by White House photographer Pete Souza during the president's historic trip to Cuba this week, Malia Obama is seen acting as an interpreter for her father as he talks with a Spanish-speaking Cuban man in a restaurant. The picture was one of several Souza posted to Instagram on Monday, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the president's monumental trip to reopen Cuban-American diplomatic relations. In another picture, White House staffers stare out the windows of Air Force One as the president landed in Havana on Sunday while other snapshots show the president holding an umbrella as he greeted Cubans in Old Havana later that day.

 

Obama heads for historic visit as Cuba rolls out red carpet | 20 March 2016 | President Barack Obama embarked on Sunday on a historic trip to Cuba where a Communist government that vilified the United States for decades prepared a red-carpet welcome. Lifting off from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, Obama headed for Havana where the sight of Air Force One, America's iconic presidential jet, touching down on Cuban soil would have been unimaginable not long ago. The three-day trip, the first by a U.S. president in 88 years, is the culmination of a diplomatic opening announced by Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro in December 2014, ending a Cold War-era estrangement that began when the Cuban revolution ousted a pro-American government in 1959.

 

Sanders wins Democrats Abroad vote in Israel and worldwide | 22 March 2016 | Candidate for the Democratic nomination for president Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly won Democrats Abroad's Global Presidential Primary, according to a press release by the organization of registered Democrats living outside of the US. Sanders received 69 percent of the vote, as opposed to Hillary Clinton's 31%. In Israel, Sanders won with 249 votes, while Clinton received 160. Democrats Abroad will be sending nine delegates to the Democratic National Convention to vote for Sanders and four for Clinton, as well as four unpledged delegate votes, made up of eight super-delegates, three of whom are committed to Clinton and one to Sanders.

 

At AIPAC, Biden slams settlement expansion, hails Iran nuclear deal | 22 March 2016 | US Vice President Joe Biden slammed Israeli settlement expansion, hailed the Iran nuclear deal, and condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for failing to condemn terror, in an address to the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby on Sunday. Biden used his speech before some 18,000 delegates gathered at Washington's Verizon Center to reiterate the American commitment to Israel's security. While vowing to protect Israel’s security, Biden was critical of Israeli and Palestinian leaders for failing to work towards peace.

 

Donald Trump's Speech to AIPAC - Transcript | 21 March 2016 | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his party's front runner for the nomination, addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Monday, discussing relations between the U.S. and Israel. A complete transcript of his remarks follows.

 

Soros Board Member Chairs Firm Running [Rigging] Online Voting for Tuesday's Utah Caucuses | 20 March 2016 | Smartmatic Group, an electronic voting firm whose worldwide headquarters is located in the United Kingdom, will be running rigging the online balloting process in the Utah Republican Open Caucuses on Tuesday. The chairman of Smartmatic's board, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, currently serves on the board of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and has close ties to the billionaire. The Wall Street Journal dubbed the Republican party's online adventure on Tuesday as "one of the biggest online votes conducted so far in the U.S." and the"largest experiment [in election theft] with online presidential voting since 2004, when Michigan allowed Democrats to vote in a party caucus via the Internet."

Shocking moment protester BEHEADS effigy of Donald Trump during his Salt Lake City rally --One clip shows the cardboard figure being beheaded with a plank of wood --Its 'executioner' announces 'I hate Trump' before the 'killing' blow --Another video shows a second man attacking the figure | 19 March 2016 | While pro-Trump and anti-Trump sides clashed at The Donald's rally in Salt Lake City Friday, some protesters decided to tackle a slightly less intimidating enemy: a crude cardboard effigy of the controversial Republican candidate. A video uploaded to Twitter by a KSL5 reporter showed protesters hanging a model of Trump by its neck on the steps of city hall and apparently inviting people to smash it with a plank of wood like a piñata. 'I hate Trump!' shouts one man who hefts his mighty weapon and, in one swift motion, beheads the hapless figure.

Man shatters door at Donald Trump Jacksonville headquarters | 19 March 2016 | Donald Trump's campaign headquarters in Jacksonville will need some repairs after a man tried to break the window early Saturday morning. Campaign volunteers said a man tried to pick up a potted plant and smash the window. They said he couldn't pick it up and instead used a trash can from the street. Trump's campaign volunteers walked into a mess of shattered glass Saturday at the presidential candidate's headquarters in Jacksonville.

You Can't Live Here If You Are Voting for Donald Trump - Landlord | 20 March 2016 | (CO) A landlord in Grand Junction is not breaking the law by refusing to lease an apartment to anyone who supports Donald Trump for president. According to The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Mark Holmes is renting out a two-bedroom apartment on Main Street, but he refuses to rent to anyone who supports Trump...Some thought Holmes was violating federal housing rules by discriminating against political affiliations, but that's not the case, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Donald Trump Adding Additional Security to Events | 20 March 2016 |  Donald Trump's campaign said today it is beefing up security, after a string of protests and violence at the Republican presidential candidate's events. "We will be dedicating additional security resources to larger events in the future to prevent staff from having to intervene," campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in a statement to ABC News. The statement comes the day after an incident involving Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski at a campaign event in Tucson, Arizona, that was captured on video.

 

Anti-Trump protesters block Arizona road; march in New York | 20 March 2016 | Demonstrators briefly shut down an Arizona highway leading to a campaign rally for Donald Trump on Saturday while protesters rallied outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan to voice their opposition to the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Television news footage of the demonstration outside Phoenix showed dozens of protesters blocking traffic while holding signs that read "Dump Trump" and "Shut Down Trump." The demonstrators eventually started marching down the highway. Later, some were seen nearing the rally at Fountain Hills, Arizona, before Trump arrived.

 

Sheriff Arpaio: 3 arrested at roadblock protest | 19 March 2016 | Controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who's leading the security at an Arizona Donald Trump rally, said on CNN his officers arrested three in a roadblock protest Saturday. Protestors in Fountain Hills, Arizona, shut down traffic heading to the Trump rally. Arpaio said that some cars were towed. "We're not going to let any demonstrators intimidate this forum or this sheriff in my town," Arpaio said.

 

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