Anonymous ID: 35b47f Feb. 16, 2020, 5:45 p.m. No.8159323   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9355 >>9367

Outrage as Saudi Arabia executes Indonesian maid for killing boss while he was raping her

 

An Indonesian maid identified as Tuti Tursilawati has been executed in Saudi Arabia for killing her boss while he was raping her.

 

Mum-of-one, Tuti Tursilawati was executed after she killed her boss who was raping her, and this sparked outrage in Jakarta.

 

Tuti Tursilawati was killed on Monday in the city of Ta’if, a city in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca Province. The Saudi government failed to warn the maid’s family or consular staff before she was killed, said officials. Her execution has prompted protests from Indonesia.

 

Indonesian President Joko Widodo called Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, demanding to know why Jakarta had not been informed about Monday’s execution of Tuti Tursilawati.

 

It was the fourth time in three years that Saudi Arabia had failed to notify Jakarta before executing an Indonesian migrant worker.

 

Mr Widodo was quoted as saying by the office of his cabinet secretary:

 

We have called Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister and conveyed our protest.

 

The Saudi ambassador to Indonesia had been summoned to discuss the matter, the president added.

 

Indonesian advocacy group Migrant Care said in September that Ms Tuti Tursilawati had been defending herself from being raped.

 

Abidin Fikri, a member of Indonesia’s parliament, criticized the killing, saying:

 

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ignored principles of human rights, including a right for everyone to live.

 

Ms Tursilawati was executed just a week after Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister al-Jubeir, met his Indonesian counterpart, Retno Marsudi, and Mr Widodo in Jakarta to discuss migrant workers’ rights. During the meeting, Mr Marsudi emphasised the importance of having a mandatory consular notification before carrying out death penalties.

 

Amnesty International Indonesia said that Saudi Arabia had damaged diplomatic ties and had behaved unethically following the execution of the mother-of-one.

 

https://www.withinnigeria.com/2018/11/01/outrage-as-saudi-arabia-executes-indonesian-maid-for-killing-boss-while-he-was-raping-her/

Anonymous ID: 35b47f Feb. 16, 2020, 5:48 p.m. No.8159345   🗄️.is 🔗kun

It's "The 1%" vs Everyone Else: FAAMG Earnings Soar As Russell 2000 EPS Growth Craters

 

The earnings recession which lasted for all of 2019, is finally coming to an end. According to Factset, with a majority of companies reproting, the blended earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 for the fourth quarter is 0.7% as of February 7. This growth rate is above the estimated earnings decline of -1.7% at the end of the quarter (December 31).

 

More importantly, if 0.7% remains the actual growth rate for Q4 after all companies have reported, it will mark the first time the index has reported year-over-year growth in earnings since Q4 2018 (13.3%), and will represent an end to the earnings recession that lasted for all of 2019. As such, it is not surprising that the index is now reporting earnings growth for the fourth quarter.

 

This long-awaited rebound in EPS - which is mostly a byproduct of the ravenous stock buybacks unleashed by tech companies - comes at a key time, just as the world asks what the economic growth impact in China and pass-through to

the US economy will be as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

So back to the actual earnings season, where as Goldman's David Kostin writes, 49% of S&P 500 companies beat consensus EPS estimates by more than one standard deviation, slightly above the long-term average of 46%. The Goldman strategist observes that companies that beat EPS estimates outperformed the S&P 500 by +113 bp the day after reporting, consistent with history. However, investors punished companies missing consensus estimates; firms that missed lagged the S&P 500 by -334 bp, underperforming by much more than the long-term average of -211 bp. This suggests that with stocks priced to perfection, even modest deviations from expectations are promptly punished by the market.

 

Unlike Factset, which sees earnings growth of just 0.7%, Goldman's calculations find that S&P EPS will grow by 2%, after they were expected to fall by 1% at the start of the season.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/market-1-and-everyone-else-faamg-earnings-are-soaring-russell-2000-eps-growth-craters

Anonymous ID: 35b47f Feb. 16, 2020, 5:49 p.m. No.8159353   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9404 >>9405

Israeli forces shot Jerusalem boy in the eye

 

Israeli occupation forces have shot Palestinian boy in his eye in the neighbourhood of Al Issawiyeh in the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem.

 

Palestinian medical source identified the boy as the nine-year-old Malik Issa, noting he sustained moderate wounds.

 

The boy, according to eyewitnesses, was shot while in his way home from school.

 

According to the medical sources, the boy might lose his eye.

 

https://ppost24.com/post/674/israeli-forces-shot-jerusalem-boy-in-the-eye

Anonymous ID: 35b47f Feb. 16, 2020, 5:50 p.m. No.8159363   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9386 >>9401 >>9448 >>9453 >>9510 >>9618 >>9692 >>9735 >>9797 >>9943

760 million now in residential lockdown (China)

 

www.confirmationbias.io/?p=20198

 

You do know that is 1/2 the population.

 

Their government is not capable of doing this……many live way out in rural areas very hard to reach…..no government assistance get out their….so how can they even begin to lock it down.

 

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/760-million-now-in-residential-lockdown-china/

Anonymous ID: 35b47f Feb. 16, 2020, 5:54 p.m. No.8159397   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Israel’s Netanyahu boasts of destroying US 1st Amendment & free speech

 

 

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contact@ifamericansknew.org February 14, 2020 AIPAC, BDS, Binyamin Netanyahu, boycott divest sanction, free speech, gilad erdan, Netanyahu

Israel’s Netanyahu boasts of destroying US 1st Amendment & free speech

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Anti-boycott laws do not only punish companies, they are the most dangerous assault on free speech in the United States since the McCarthy era.

 

by Juan Cole Reposted from Informed Comment

 

Israeli caretaker prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has been indicted for corruption and is facing an election soon, just boasted that his ministry of strategic affairs has managed to undermine first amendment protections for free speech in the United States by lobbying state legislatures to pass laws forbidding the boycott of Israel.

 

Anti-boycott laws of the Old South were used against Martin Luther King, Jr. and other activists in the Civil Rights movement to keep African-Americans subordinate and segregated. The right to boycott establishments over civil rights was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1982 in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware.

 

It was also not for nothing that the American administration has taken this step together with us. In recent years, we have promoted laws in most US states, which determine that strong action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel.

 

— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) February 12, 2020

 

Some 28 US states have passed laws prohibiting the boycott of Israel and attempting to punish this action by denying such individuals state contracts.

 

Gilad Erdan is the head of the ministry of strategic affairs, which has spearheaded the attempt to undermine the US constitution and make criticizing Israeli policy illegal in the United States. This effort is allegedly being aided by Mossad, Israeli intelligence. Mossad intensively spies on Washington, D.C., and may have compromising information on US politicians.

 

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee or AIPAC is the main instrument of such Israeli policy pushes in the United States, and has never been forced to register as the agent of a foreign state, as US law requires.

 

It should be noted that the anti-boycott laws do not only punish companies. Most states treat individuals providing them services as companies categorized as “sole proprietors.” University professors invited to speak on campus in the states with these horrid laws have been asked to sign statements they don’t boycott Israel before being allowed to speak. These procedures are the most dangerous assault on free speech in the United States since the McCarthy era.

 

Journalist Abby Martin has just launched a lawsuit against the University of Georgia for cancelling her speaking appearance when she declined to sign a pledge she would not boycott Israel.

 

I wrote recently that “in the past 23 months Palestinians in Gaza have been demonstrating weekly, and Israeli army snipers have shot down over 8,000 them, leaving many crippled for life and killing over 200 dead from gunshots. Most of those shot were peaceful demonstrators posing no danger, who simply came into a zone the Israeli army arbitrarily declared off limits, even though it was inside Gaza. Victims include children, women, medics, journalists, and other nonviolent noncombatants.

 

https://israelpalestinenews.org/israels-netanyahu-boasts-of-destroying-us-1st-amendment-free-speech/

Anonymous ID: 35b47f Feb. 16, 2020, 5:57 p.m. No.8159422   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9442 >>9692

RESEARCH PAPER:The Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, is Highly Contagious and More Infectious Than Initially Estimated , R0: 4.7-6.6

 

“Abstract

The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a recently emerged human pathogen that has spread widely since January 2020. Initially, the basic reproductive number, R0, was estimated to be 2.2 to 2.7. Here we provide a new estimate of this quantity. We collected extensive individual case reports and estimated key epidemiology parameters, including the incubation period. Integrating these estimates and high-resolution real-time human travel and infection data with mathematical models, we estimated that the number of infected individuals during early epidemic double every 2.4 days, and the R0 value is likely to be between 4.7 and 6.6. We further show that quarantine and contact tracing of symptomatic individuals alone may not be effective and early, strong control measures are needed to stop transmission of the virus.”

 

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/research-paperthe-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-is-highly-contagious-and-more-infectious-than-initially-estimated-r0-4-7-6-6/

 

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v1

Anonymous ID: 35b47f Feb. 16, 2020, 6 p.m. No.8159457   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9618 >>9692 >>9735 >>9797 >>9943

ICE: Sanctuary California Hiding Details on Accused Illegal Alien Child Abusers

 

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is accusing the sanctuary state of California of refusing to disclose if they plan to release a number of criminal illegal aliens, including those accused of crimes against children.

 

This week, ICE officials sent subpoenas to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office (SDCSO) asking for whereabout information and if the sanctuary state plans on releasing a series of illegal aliens.

 

“Issuance of these immigration subpoenas is necessary because the SDCSO is forced to comply with California’s sanctuary state laws, and therefore cannot cooperate in honoring immigration detainers or requests for non-public information to assist in locating criminal aliens that have been or will be released from custody,” an ICE release stated.

 

Specifically, ICE officials are seeking information on these four illegal aliens:

 

A 40-year-old illegally present Mexican national who was arrested in December … for continuing sexual abuse of a child, lewd and lascivious act of a child under fourteen years old, and oral copulation with a person under fourteen years old. An immigration detainer was lodged with the SDSO. He has two DUI convictions, both from 2009. He has been returned to Mexico on eleven occasions between 2009 and 2011. He remains in SDSO custody at the county jail; [Emphasis added]

 

A 42-year-old illegally present Mexican national who was arrested for first degree robbery … in November 2019. He has a prior conviction for possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) from 2013. A federal immigration judge granted him voluntarily departure, but he failed to depart the United States as ordered. After his November 2019 arrest, an immigration detainer was lodged with SDSO but due to California sanctuary state laws the detainer was not honored, and he was released back into the community; [Emphasis added]

 

A 31-year-old illegally present Mexican national who was arrested … for battery of spouse and false imprisonment in December 2019. He has a prior conviction for deceptive government identification, 2008. U.S. immigration authorities previously returned or removed him from the U. S. three times between 2008 and 2010. ICE lodged an immigration detainer with SDSO following his December arrest but due to California sanctuary state laws the detainer was not honored, and he was released back into the community; [Emphasis added]

 

A 28-year-old illegally present Mexican national who was arrested for assault with force, great bodily injury, child cruelty and battery of spouse … He was previously arrested in 2017 for battery on spouse by local law enforcement. He was returned to Mexico multiple times in 2004. A final order of removal was issued by a federal immigration judge in January 2018 and he was removed to Mexico. Once again, he illegally reentered the United States. An immigration detainer was lodged with the SDSO and he remains in custody. [Emphasis added]

 

“The public needs to be aware and concerned that California sanctuary state laws do not protect public safety and is bad public policy,” ICE official Gregory Archambeault said.

 

“Criminal aliens are being released back into the community daily and most will re-offend resulting in more victims,” Archambeault said. “For ICE, the most concerning part about dealing with uncooperative jurisdictions, or places that are not allowed to work with us, is that we don’t always know who is being arrested, when they’ll be released, or if they are at-large in the community again.”

 

The ICE subpoenas come as Attorney General William Barr has filed lawsuits against sanctuary jurisdictions New Jersey and King County, Washington, for obstructing federal immigration law and enforcement.

 

At the same time, President Trump is reportedly sending about 100 “elite tactical agents” to about 10 sanctuary cities to aid ICE agents in arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens, Breitbart News reported. The administration is hoping to increase arrests of criminal illegal aliens by 35 percent.

 

As Breitbart News has previously reported, sanctuary counties in California release thousands of illegal aliens back into American communities every day, according to federal immigration officials. In Los Angeles, California, for example, up to 100 criminal illegal aliens are released every day from police custody.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/16/ice-sanctuary-california-hiding-details-accused-illegal-alien-child-abusers/

Anonymous ID: 35b47f Feb. 16, 2020, 6:10 p.m. No.8159543   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9577 >>9692

Right-wing religious parties renew pledge to back Netanyahu as PM

 

Yamina, Shas, United Torah Judaism stress commitment to endorse Likud leader after March elections; Blue and White warns pact will lead to 4th elections

 

Right-wing religious parties allied with Likud on Sunday again declared their loyalty to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, putting their signatures to a document pledging to back him for premier after next month’s national election.

 

The letter was signed by Yamina, United Torah Judaism, and Shas. It was initiated by Minister of the Interior Aryeh Deri, the head of Shas.

 

“We’ll only support Netanyahu. We are convinced that the right-wing bloc will succeed in getting 61 seats in the elections and assembling a strong nationalist government for the people of Israel,” the letter said.

 

Netanyahu cheered the move, saying it was the “nail in the coffin of [Benny] Gantz’s bluff,” in reference to the prospects of his rival, the leader of the Blue and White party, of forming a governing coalition.

 

Blue and White, meanwhile, said the right-wing pact would drive Israel to an additional round of elections after the March 2 vote — the fourth since April 2019.

 

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/right-wing-religious-parties-renew-pledge-to-back-netanyahu-as-pm/