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Another Sweden Democrat caught making anti-Jew joke – The Local – Where’s the Ironic Key on your e-mail application?

Sweden’s prime minister Stefan Löfven has slammed the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats as a Nazi party after yet another senior MP was caught making a racist, antisemitic joke.

Source: Another Sweden Democrat caught making anti-Jew joke – The Local

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven told the Aftonbladetnewspaper that the string of recent scandals “said it all” about the party.
“That’s what we’ve said all along, that this is a party with Nazi and racist roots. But it’s not just that they have these roots, it is there in the here and now,” he said.
“That a member of parliament from the SD submits a motion on media policy based on anti-Semitic propaganda, that says it all,” he continued. “And that the economic policy spokesperson, SD’s candidate for finance minister, is standing and cheering and laughing at anecdotes about Nazis kicking animals and referring to Jews, it also says everything.”
Herrstedt defended the email, arguing that she had found it on the internet and had sent it ironically.

Trump Still Thinks The (Exonerated!) Central Park 5 Are Guilty: Gothamist

One of the many wonderful things America’s Ambulatory Shitstain Donald Trump did before he attempted to destroy Planet Earth was get involved in the Central Park 5 case. Back in 1989, Trump took out ads condemning the five teenagers who were (wrongfully) convicted of attacking a jogger in the park, calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty. All five men have since been exonerated by DNA evidence and received a collective $41 million settlement from the city—but Trump has no time for scientific proof, and he still says they’re guilty.In a statement to CNN this week, Trump claimed the DNA evidence didn’t prove anything, and the men are still guilty. “They admitted they were guilty,” he said. “The police doing the original investigation say they were guilty. The fact that that case was settled with so much evidence against them is outrageous. And the woman, so badly injured, will never be the same.”Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, and Korey Wise spent years in prison for the rape and near fatal assault of Trisha Melli. But in 2002, convicted rapist and murderer Matias Reyes confessed to the crime, and his DNA matched the DNA found at the crime scene. Then-Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau had the five men’s convictions vacated, and they received their settlement in 2014—a settlement which Trump, then just a bigoted reality-TV idiot instead of a bigoted presidential candidate idiot, called “politics at its lowest and worst form,” in a Daily News op-ed. “These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels,” Trump opined, in his now-familiar racially loaded way.Trump shows a blatant disregard for our country’s legal process, just as he shows a blatant disregard for our political process, tax system, Constitutional rights, and hair sensibilities. These men wasted years behind bars for a crime our courts have since asserted they did not commit.

Source: Trump Still Thinks The (Exonerated!) Central Park 5 Are Guilty: Gothamist

Ken Burns Blasts Donald Trump Over Comments on Central Park Five: “The Height of Vulgarity” | Hollywood Reporter

I suppose you’ve seen the comments made by Donald Trump saying he believes the Central Park Five are still guilty and have gotten away with a heinous crime. After having spent so much time with them making your 2012 documentary, The Central Park Five, how do you respond to that? It’s just so patently untrue — and he knows it’s untrue. This is out and out racism. This is a man who finds it impossible to apologize and so he needs to double-down on what we know is untrue. We know this: They were exonerated by a court of law for the crime they served full sentences for. The reason they served the full sentences is because they refused to take a plea bargain and they refused at parole hearings to admit their guilt because they were innocent. They were proved innocent by DNA evidence and the judge vacated their convictions. Several years after that, the City of New York settled with them for time that no amount of money could possibly repay them for. In In his statement, Trump says the Central Park Five “admitted they were guilty” back in 1989.The original thing that they “admitted it” is so specious that it barely warrants a response. They had coerced confessions. They were subjected to questioning by seasoned detectives. These were two 14-year-olds, two 15-year-olds and one developmentally challenged 16-year-old. They were interrogated for up to 30 hours, without food, water or parents. They were lied to and told that if they implicated someone else they would be able to go home. When they finally did, at their parents’ urging, they not only did not go home, they went to jail for between seven and 13 years. And in fact every single one of their “confessions” has the absence of the sixth person — whose DNA was the only DNA found at the scene. As the eldest, Korey Wise, sat in jail at a maximum security prison, this sociopathic murderer named Matias Reyes, who because of police incompetence went on to murder other people that year — a woman and her unborn child, as well as rape other women — he confessed. His DNA matched the DNA, 13 years old, that they had been sitting on unable to match with anyone else. And none of the boys statements suggested that there was anyone else at the scene of the crime.

Source: Ken Burns Blasts Donald Trump Over Comments on Central Park Five: “The Height of Vulgarity” | Hollywood Reporter

German prisoners (LOC)

German prisoners (LOC)

The Library of Congress posted a photo: Bain News Service,, publisher. German prisoners [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920] 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).Format: Glass negatives.Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbainHigher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.27895Call Number: LC-B2- 4765-13Original enclosures:

Interlogix Recalls to Inspect Personal Panic Devices Due to Failure to Operate in an Emergency | CPSC.gov “Funny and not so funny, if you bought one.”

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Interlogix ® wireless personal panic devicesHazard:The wireless personal panic devices can fail to operate, which could result in the device not communicating with the security system if activated in the event of an emergency.

Source: Interlogix Recalls to Inspect Personal Panic Devices Due to Failure to Operate in an Emergency | CPSC.gov

Did President Obama’s 2011 birther lampoon set in motion Donald Trump’s presidential run? Brent Larkin | cleveland.com

 

The Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning Dorothy Rabinowitz is clearly no sellout, concluding a Sept. 29 column endorsing Clinton this way, “Her election alone is what stands between the American nation and the reign of the most unstable, proudly uninformed, psychologically unfit president ever to enter the White House.”  Trump only claims to be a Republican. He might be a much better fit with the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.  Parts of the Nazi platform were vintage Trump: Only those born here count as real citizens; purge the country of foreigners; eliminate all press freedoms; annul treaties; and treat “positive Christianity” as the only real religion.  Trump is no Hitler. But there are enough similarities in their rise to prominence to frighten us all.Those similarities were brilliantly noted by the esteemed and feared New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani, in a review of a new book titled, “Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939.”  With nary a mention of Trump’s name, Kakutani told how the book described Hitler as an “egomaniac” who practiced “a doctrine of hatred.”  Hitler, she wrote, “rose to power through demagoguery, showmanship and nativist appeals to the masses.”    He was, she added, a man whose “manic speeches and penchant for taking all-or-nothing risks raised questions about his capacity for self-control.”  Two peas in a pod.    Trump’s the one without the armband.

Source: Did President Obama’s 2011 birther lampoon set in motion Donald Trump’s presidential run? Brent Larkin | cleveland.com

N.S.A. Suspect Is a Hoarder. But a Leaker? Investigators Aren’t Sure. – The New York Times “The real problem is outsourcing government work to private firms that began with President Ronny DeRegulator.”

Harold T. Martin III, described by his ex-wife as a hoarder, broke rules by taking home top-secret material, officials said, but they struggled to connect him to leaked documents.

Source: N.S.A. Suspect Is a Hoarder. But a Leaker? Investigators Aren’t Sure. – The New York Times

Mike Pence Disavows Donald Trump’s Earlier Proposal Barring Muslims – The New York Times

“Governor Pence’s flagrant attempts to mislead voters on his running mate’s positions aren’t fooling anyone,” said Zara Rahim, a spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign. “Not only has Trump proposed an unconstitutional immigration ban on an entire religion, but he’s suggested creating a database that tracks Muslims in this country.”She added, “Pence has not disavowed anything, he’s just lied to the American people once again.”Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that Mr. Trump could not simply turn the page on the Muslim ban.“Whatever the Trump campaign claims is the current version of its Muslim ban, the original absolutist language of a ‘total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States’ — along with other bigoted statements — reflect a systematic and toxic use of Islamophobia that has had a tremendously harmful impact on the lives of ordinary American Muslims and on the unity of our nation,” Mr. Awad said.Despite efforts to quietly backtrack on the proposal, the Trump campaign has continued to face questions about the ban because the news release from last December announcing the proposal has not been removed from Mr. Trump’s website.“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,” the release said.

Source: Mike Pence Disavows Donald Trump’s Earlier Proposal Barring Muslims – The New York Times

Jewish anti-Zionist removed as Momentum vice chair | The Electronic Intifada

 

Walker had written in February that the transatlantic slave trade had been an “African holocaust” and that “many Jews (my ancestors too) were the chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade.”Walker has since elaborated that the comments applied only to “a certain economic point, in specific regions where my ancestors lived.”Although she made the original comments in what she says was a private conversation among friends, unknown to her, her Facebook privacy settings at the time meant the comments were publicly visible.In May, the Israel Advocacy Movement sent the comments to pro-Israel paper The Jewish Chronicle, which then published selected excerpts from the conversation, creating another media storm.Without investigation, the Labour Party suspended Walker as soon as “the JC brought her comments to the party’s attention,” the paper boasted.Witch huntBut after an outcry from supportive Labour members, Walker’s suspension was lifted at the end of May.Party officials wrote to her saying she had no case to answer and she was readmitted, to the dismay of the JLM, which claimed she was an anti-Semite.Walker has since then been active in speaking out against the “witch hunt” of left-wing and pro-Palestinian Labour Party activists. This video of Walker was filmed at the Free Speech on Israel meeting at the Labour Party conference last week.

Source: Jewish anti-Zionist removed as Momentum vice chair | The Electronic Intifada

Google’s Decision To Sponsor Visa Of Anti-Gay Kenyan Activist Creates Internal Conflict: SFist

Ezekiel Mutua is the head of the Kenyan film classification board, and in that capacity has repeatedly condemned homosexuality and worked to ban music and film that depict it. “Kenya must not allow people to become the Sodom and Gomorrah through psychological drive from such content,” he told Mamba Online in reference to a cover of the Macklemore song “Same Love” which addressed the queer community in Kenya.In a country where homosexuality is punishable by up to 14 years in prison Mutua’s words carry weight, and the KFCB outlawed the music video in question.

Source: Google’s Decision To Sponsor Visa Of Anti-Gay Kenyan Activist Creates Internal Conflict: SFist