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Ny Times: In a Rare Survey, Cubans Express a Hunger for Economic Growth

MEXICO CITY — A hunger for economic opportunity. An embrace of tourism. Hope in a new era of normalized relations with the United States.

These are some of the predominant sentiments expressed in a rare survey of 840 Cubans conducted in the country late last year by an independent research group, asking for opinions on topics from free speech to diplomatic ties to crime.

What emerges most clearly from those interviewed is a desire to enjoy a more certain, and robust, economic future.

In this, the Cuban people seem to be in agreement with their government. For the Cuban state, led by Raúl Castro, allowing entrepreneurs to open small businesses, normalizing relations with the United States and expanding tourism have been central to the country’s hunt for economic growth.

These three policies were among the most highly supported by the Cubans interviewed in the survey, done by the independent research group NORC at the University of Chicago. Eight of 10 Cubans interviewed felt tourism to the country should be increased, and 95 percent said having a high level of economic growth was an extremely or very important goal.

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And yet Cubans seemed to have little faith in their government’s capacity to deliver on those goals. Only three in 10 felt the economy would improve in the next three years. And just 13 percent said the current economy was good or excellent. Three-quarters of Cubans believed they must be careful in saying what they think, at least sometimes.

Over half of those Cubans interviewed said they would like to leave the country if given a chance, and 70 percent of those individuals said they would move to the United States if they could.

The interviews were conducted in person in October and November, before the inauguration of President Trump, who has threatened to rescind President Obama’s 2014 decision to restore diplomatic ties between the nations.

While Mr. Trump has remained relatively quiet about Cuba since taking office, his administration announced it is conducting a full review of the policy and could decide to cut off ties again.

But that would not be what Cubans themselves appear to want.

Of those interviewed, 55 percent felt that better relations with the United States would be a good thing, while only 3 percent felt it would be mostly bad.

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Washington Post: Alex Ovechkin fuels Capitals to 4-2 win over the Flames

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 21: Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) shoots and scores during third period action against the Calgary Flames at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC on March 21, 2017. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)

On his 11th shot, Alex Ovechkin finally got the reward he sought — a goal horn, a spotlight and a celebratory leg kick.

“He’s got a ridiculous shot,” Nicklas Backstrom said. “If he’s got 11 shots every game, at least one is going to go in. That’s just who he is.”

Ovechkin’s late power-play goal was the insurance in Washington’s 4-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night. His play had helped the Capitals surge past the Flames much earlier, setting up T.J. Oshie’s goal and then drawing the penalty that led to Kevin Shattenkirk’s first goal with the Capitals.

The win allowed Washington to maintain its grip on first place in the Metropolitan Division with 102 points. The Capitals did so in large part because of their captain. Ovechkin lobbed a season-high 11 shots at goaltender Brian Elliott and finished with three points.

Backstrom also had three assists, and three days after his hat trick, Oshie hit the 30-goal plateau for the first time in his career. He is the Capitals’ first 30 goal scorer other than Ovechkin since the 2009-10 season.

“Our line played very well,” Ovechkin said. “We are moving well. You can see how we skate through the neutral zone. It’s a fun time right now.”

With the game tied after the first period, Washington pulled away late in the second frame. Ovechkin’s feed to Oshie gave the Capitals a 2-1 lead 15:51 into the second period. Upon seeing the puck connect with the netting, Oshie turned to his left, pointing to Ovechkin, acknowledging his pretty pass. Ovechkin pointed back at him, crediting him for the redirection.

“He’s got a lot of goals to his resume, and one of the things that he’s not shy of doing is shooting the puck,” Coach Barry Trotz said of Ovechkin. “The funny thing is he’s made some unbelievable passes lately. He’s known as a great shooter, and he always will be, but some of his passes have been outstanding.

“I like the fact that him and Osh and Backy, they’re very unselfish. They’re trying to do what’s best for the team, and if a guy’s open, they’ll get it over to him. I like that fact.”

Less than four minutes later, Ovechkin drove the net and was tripped by Flames defenseman Dougie Hamilton. Shattenkirk’s point shot on the power play trickled past Elliott with Oshie and Backstrom screening him in front. That marked Shattenkirk’s first goal since joining the Capitals before the trade deadline, and it was Washington’s 20th shot of the period. Ovechkin had accounted for seven of them.

Former Capitals player Troy Brouwer scored for the Flames with 4:56 left in the game to cut the deficit to one goal, but Ovechkin’s power-play goal sealed the result.

“He really has that ability to really just kill a team with one shot,” Shattenkirk said. “He knows how to really use that.”

Ovechkin’s goal-scoring has been down. This likely will mark the first time he won’t hit 50 in a non-lockout shortened year since 2013. Entering Tuesday night, he had just one goal in his past 13 games, struggling to score 30. But Ovechkin’s linemates have taken some of the scoring burden off him. Backstrom entered the game fifth in the NHL scoring race, and Oshie is enjoying a career year.

The three have developed chemistry playing together for the vast majority of the past two seasons and they’ve accounted for six goals in the past two games.

“All three of them are working together,” Trotz said. “They’re making plays. They don’t spend a lot of time in their own zone. They’re responsible defensively. They’ve got a real good hound mentality around the puck and keeping pucks alive, and when they keep pucks alive, they create offense.”

The Capitals clinched their playoff berth in their 5-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday, but Washington still has a lot to play for in the last 10 games of the regular season. Entering Tuesday, just one point separated the top three Metropolitan Division teams — Washington, Columbus and Pittsburgh. For the Capitals, falling out of first place could mean a more challenging first-round series and potentially losing home ice.

But as they put 40 pucks on net on Tuesday night against a fellow playoff-bound team, the Capitals looked like a team priming for postseason play.

“We (have) 10 games left,” Ovechkin said. “You have to be ready, you have to be focused and you have to try to do your best to be in the playoff mode.”

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Washington Post: In Germany, right-wing violence flourishing amid surge in online hate

BERLIN — The 66-year-old conspiracy theorist and former tour guide was undoubtedly eccentric. He dressed in public like an ancient Druid and occasionally traversed his southern German town by Segway. He accessorized his robe with a wooden spear.

Yet the recent arrest of the German Druid highlights the real world dangers posed by those propagating a global barrage of online hate. Public attention may be focused on  Islamist extremists. But in Germany — just as in the United States, where three Indians were recently attacked and Jewish centers and mosques have become the targets of bomb threats — right-wing violence driven by hate is emerging as a far more widespread threat.

On his account on VKontakte — a sort of Russian version of Facebook — Burkhard Bangert raged that he wanted to “annihilate Jews and Muslims.” He shared an image of the Star of David, with text inside calling for the killing of journalists, cops and bankers.

He also expressed beliefs shared by the “Reichsbürgers” — an expanding movement in Germany with uncanny similarities to so-called sovereign citizens groups in the United States. Its followers reject the legitimacy of the federal government, seeing politicians and bureaucrats as usurpers.

A policeman carries documents out of a house at Wittstocker Strasse in the district of Moabit in Berlin, Germany, in January. The raid was part of a nationwide operation against the so-called Reichsbürger. (Paul Zinken/Paul Zinken/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

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Prosecutors say Bangert’s rage went further than rhetoric — a growing risk, experts say, as fringe thinking and incitement to hate goes mainstream in the West. After authorities seized illegal weapons from his home, they charged Bangert and a network of five accomplices with allegedly plotting attacks on police officers, Jewish centers and refugee shelters.

“It’s an international phenomenon of people claiming there are conspiracies going on, people with an anti-Semitic world view who are also against Muslims, immigrants and the federal government,” said Jan Rathje, a project leader at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, which studies right-wing violence.

“We’ve reached a point where it’s not just talk,” he continued. “This kind of thinking is turning violent.”

Few places are more sensitive to right-wing violence than Germany — a nation where anti-Semitic hate became the driver of the Nazi ideology that eventually led to the Holocaust.

Yet even here, attacks linked to fringe right-wing groups are surging.

On Wednesday, a Munich court found four suspects guilty of forming a far-right terror squad, dubbed the Old School Society, with the intention of bombing refugee centers. Last week, eight Germans went on trial in the eastern city of Dresden for forming a far-right terror network that allegedly staged five attacks, including the bombing of a left-wing politician’s car and detonating explosive devices at two refugee homes.

Last year, preliminary figures still set to climb show at least 12,503 crimes were committed by far-right extremists — 914 of which were violent . The worst act of related violence last year: the fatal shooting of a German police officer by a Reichsbürger member. The preliminary figures roughly compare to levels in 2015, but they amount to a leap of nearly 20 percent from 2014.

The last time numbers surged this high, officials say, was the early 1990s — when Germany recorded a large but short-term jump in neo-Nazi activity following reunification. Authorities say the current surge has been triggered in part by the arrival of nearly 1 million mostly Muslim asylum seekers to Germany. Last year, there were nearly  10 anti-migrant attacks per day, ranging from incitement and vandalism to arsons and severe beatings.

Yet officials say the rise of conspiracy theorist websites, inflammatory fake news and anti-federal government/right-wing activism has thrown another troubling factor into the mix.

In Germany, Bangert was linked to the Reichsbürger movement — a disparate group of nearly 10,000 individuals who reject the authority of Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as federal, state and city governments. Some claim that the last real German government was the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler.

But many others defy easy classification, recognizing only earlier German governments or none at all. On Wednesday, for instance, one Reichburger who had proclaimed himself the true “King of Germany” was sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for embezzling 1 million euros from his followers.

“We see people who are a little mentally disordered, people with economic problems. We see people with conspiracy theories. You also have right-wing extremists, you have esoterics and you have your sovereign citizens. This is the conglomerate of what we call the Reichsbürger” movement, said Heiko Homburg, head of counterextremism at the Brandenburg branch of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.

While the Reichsbürger movement may be uniquely German, its fringe thinking is universal. German intelligence officials describe some of their tools, such as fake passports and the documents used to declare their own governments, as being nearly identical to those by American sovereign citizens groups.

German officials consider only up to 6 percent of Reichsbürger members to be “right wing extremists.” Instead, the majority are like Thomas Patzlaff , a 59-year old Berlin resident who makes a meager income by selling homemade filters because he is convinced that public drinking water is unsafe. Like many in the movement, he does not believe in paying taxes or debts, and almost ended up in prison, he said, after refusing to cover hundreds of euros in parking fines to the Berlin government he does not recognize.

He also says he believes he is the reincarnation of Thomas Jefferson — but that’s a whole other story.

“The federal government of Germany does not exist for me,” said Patzlaff, who has written to the pope and foreign embassies to declare his own sovereign state. He defines its borders as his cozy flat in north Berlin — a hub of activity where younger right-wing activists occasionally pop up to seek Patzlaff’s advice.

“I am a German, but the so-called state we live in is just a construct of the elites and the Allies,” Patzlaff said.

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Yet officials fear surging membership in such groups are also fueling more violence, and German intelligence agencies are now in the midst  of compiling a database of armed Reichsbürger members.

In October, a 49-year old Reichsbürger living near Nuremberg, and who had declared his home an “independent state,” shot and killed a police officer charged with seizing his hoarded weapons. Last August, Adrian Ursache, 41 — a former “Mr. Germany” — and 13 of his supporters in  Saxony-Anhalt state tried to prevent his eviction from his “sovereign home” by shooting at police. Police fired back, severely injuring Ursache. Two officers were also hurt.

The violence has left authorities facing the challenging task of separating the truly dangerous from the merely quixotic. Some — like the Druid — authorities say, have crossed a line.

German officials say their January raid of his and 11 other apartments yielded evidence against Bangert and five other people suspected of having formed a far-right extremist network. They are believed, prosecutors say, to have been planning armed attacks against police officers, asylum seekers and Jews.

The local German broadcaster SWR cited police sources as saying that live weapons, ammunition, a pen gun and explosives were found in the raids.

Bangert — who used to give tours of the picturesque Rhön Mountains and lived in the southern town of Schwetzingen — has denied the charges and is fighting them. His family insists the charges are trumped up.

“He has always been a bit quirky and done things not everybody would immediately understand,” Friedhelm Bangert, a 63-year-old retired farmer, said of his brother the “Druid.”

“He liked to talk big and had a big mouth, but what he’s accused of, the founding of a terrorist organization . . . from all I’ve heard from his circle of friends, that’s a big joke,” he said.

He said he had last talked to his brother around Christmas, when he confronted him with some of his radical statements.

“He told me, if you don’t overexaggerate, nobody will pay any attention to you,” Bangert said.

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Washington Post: Questions linger over whether labor nominee Alexander Acosta will stand up for workers

President Trump nominated former U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta to lead the Labor Department. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)

When President Trump announced that his new pick for labor secretary would be Alexander Acosta, a conservative law school dean with a deep background in public service, some career staffers at the Labor Department, Democrats and workers advocates breathed a sigh of relief.

The former U.S. attorney had served on the National Labor Relations Board, which made him familiar with labor laws and put him in stark contrast with Trump’s first choice: Andrew Puzder, a vocal fast-food chief executive who opposed substantially raising the minimum wage and rules that would expand eligibility for overtime pay.

But as Acosta’s Wednesday confirmation hearing approaches, some labor groups say questions remain about how much the more reserved dean — who “plays it close to the vest,” as one friend and colleague put it — will do to protect workers.

“Things were a lot clearer with Mr. Puzder,” said Kendall Fells, a national organizing director of the Fight for $15, a group that advocates for a higher minimum wage. “Workers have a list of questions they want to ask Mr. Acosta.”

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Fells and other worker advocates say they want to know how Acosta, 48, would protect immigrant workers from deportation or retaliation, citing the Trump administration’s tough stance on immigration.

Others say they wonder whether Acosta would provide a voice for workers at a time when Republicans and business groups are trying to unravel some of the protections finalized under the Obama administration.

They want to know where Acosta stands, for example, on some of the Labor Department policies that have been in limbo since the election. Those include a rule that would expand the number of workers who qualify for overtime pay and a regulation that would require brokers working with retirement savers to put their clients’ interests first.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a letter to Acosta this week that she’s concerned he “will simply fall in line with President Trump’s anti-worker statements and policies, which would be disastrous for the millions of American workers who rely on the Department of Labor’s enforcement of labor law.”

Warren, other Democrats and some consumer advocates say their concerns about his potential leadership style are illustrated in one of the issues he faced while heading the civil rights division of the Justice Department. An investigation from the Office of the Inspector General found that Acosta, who was the assistant attorney general of the division from 2003 to 2005, “did not take sufficient action” to supervise a former senior division official who was “inappropriately” hiring mostly conservative attorneys for the department.

“It took years for the civil rights division to be rebuilt and for it to return to its core focus of enforcing civil rights in an objective matter,” said Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and an attorney at the civil rights division during Acosta’s tenure. “At the end of the day, this was all conduct that played out under Mr. Acosta’s watch.”

Acosta did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication.

But some friends and colleagues in his home town of Miami say that while Acosta is a private person, he is a fair leader who respects others’ views, even when they are different from his own. Ediberto Roman, one of the founding faculty members of the law school at Florida International University where Acosta is the dean, said Acosta has always been supportive of his work advocating for the rights of minorities, including undocumented immigrants. Roman said that in speeches and events, Acosta is more likely to emphasize the accomplishments of his students and colleagues than he is to tout his own work.

“He’s a straight-laced, honest guy who will do everything he can to do right by people,” he said.

Acosta advocated for the civil rights of Muslim Americans several times throughout his time at the civil rights division and at the law school. In 2004, for instance, he intervened with the Justice Department to help defend an 11-year-old girl in Oklahoma who was suing her school district for requiring her to remove her hijab on the grounds that it violated the school’s dress code. The school district settled with the Justice Department and adjusted its dress code.

Acosta, who is Cuban American, would fill one of the last major openings for Trump’s Cabinet and would be the only Hispanic member, if confirmed. The Labor Department has lacked a top leader for two months in part because of Puzder’s multiple hearing delays and his eventual withdrawal from the running after he lost of the support of several Republicans who were concerned about his record, including the revelation that he once hired an undocumented worker in his home.

After earning his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, Acosta established his career in Washington by working as an associate at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis and as an adjunct professor for George Mason University’s law school. Acosta also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., back when Alito was a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

He returned to Miami in 2005 as a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida and led several high-profile cases, including the fraud and conspiracy charges against Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the prosecution of accused terrorist Jose Padilla and the case against Colombian drug cartel members Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. In 2009 he joined the law school.

Acosta became the chairman of the board of directors for U.S. Century Bank, a Hispanic-owned community bank based in South Florida, in 2013. The bank was struggling then with mortgage loans that soured after the Great Recession, but Acosta helped turn the bank around by securing a capitalization deal that helped the bank stay in business and remain an independent community bank, said Ken Thomas a bank consultant in South Florida.

“You’ve got a good person, who is smart … listens to the pros and cons and then makes a decision,” Thomas said.

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Huffington Post: 10 Ways To Save Money And Transform Your Life

Most people would like to have more money. Whilst earning more money is sometimes out of your control, and might not always be immediately possible, how much money you spend is within your control. By becoming more conscious of how and where you spend your money, you can make your money reach further for you. Here are ten suggestions on how to save money and transform your life:

1. Stop impulse buying. When you feel the impulse to buy something, stop for a few seconds and ask yourself ‘do I really want and/or need this’? If, after stopping to ask yourself this question, you still want to buy it, that’s fine. The point is to start building awareness about when you feel the impulse to buy something and how you are feeling when the impulse arises. What do you believe the item will add to your life and how do you think it will make you feel once you own it? Many people live their lives on autopilot. Bringing awareness to the choices you make can help you to make more conscious decisions and spend your money in a more conscious way.

2. Shop smarter. With the wealth of information readily available to most people, there are many opportunities for you to shop smarter. Ways to shop smarter include: buy items online and have them delivered; requesting a discount (where appropriate) instead of paying full price; buying your groceries somewhere cheaper; buy at discount stores or thrift shops; team up with others to receive group discounts; buy in bulk; reach out to your network on Facebook to find the best deals; or you could exchange your time (instead of money) for products or services. If it is important enough to you, you will find ways to shop smarter and save money.

3. Watch out for tricks used in marketing and advertising. Marketing and advertising campaigns are very clever at making you think and believe you want something you don’t really need. They are also good at convincing you to buy something simply because it appears to be a good deal. They pull on emotional strings and play on people’s weaknesses and insecurities. Building more awareness of the tricks they use helps you to resist their temptation.

4. Grow your own food. Grow your own vegetables, grow your own herbs, grow your own fruit. Not only will it help you to get outside and get in touch with nature, you know where your food is coming from, you are reducing transport mileage and you have the choice whether to grow organic produce or not.

5. Instead of buying, share items with your family, friends or community. Instead of always buying new clothes, why not try sharing with others. You could also do this for appliances such as lawn mowers, various tools etc. instead of buying expensive items you might rarely use. In Vancouver, there are multiple car share companies where car ownership is shared among many members, thus significantly reducing costs.

6. Downsize. Do you really need to live in a giant house, drive a big car or own a huge TV? When you downsize, you might find you don’t miss what you had. Downsizing is also good for the environment and promotes a more sustainable way of living.

7. Walk, ride or use public transport. As well as providing exercise, this could help you save money on gas, parking, tolls etc.

8. Utilise free resources. It could be things you are indirectly paying for through your taxes, such as borrowing books or taking free courses or workshops through the library, or free courses put on for unemployed people. Or it might be reducing your phone data plan and using more free Wi-Fi which is widely available at coffee shops, restaurants etc. There are many free resources available if you look around.

9. Cancel any unused or unneeded subscriptions or memberships. How many magazine subscriptions, gym & fitness memberships and other online memberships do you have where you are basically just throwing your money away? Either start using or cancel them.

10. Either drink less coffee or tea or take it from home. Buying a $5 latte each day adds up over the course of a year. In fact, spending $5 every week day over the course of one year adds up to $1,305! Or if you are unable or unwilling to drink less coffee or tea, try bringing it from home.

Once you become open to thinking more about how and where you spend your money, you realise there are many ways to be creative and resourceful to help you save money. You might even realise that you don’t need as much money as you previously thought to live comfortably. And by doing more with your money, and consuming less, you are doing your part to help the environment and humanity.

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Huffington Post: Wednesday's Morning Email: GOP Does 'Not Have The Votes' For Health Care Repeal

DESPITE TRUMP VISIT, GOP DOESN’T APPEAR TO HAVE VOTES TO PASS HEALTH CARE BILL While President Donald Trump said Republicans would pay at the midterm elections if they did not vote for this bill, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus said, “They do not have the votes right now.” The bill is still set for a vote Thursday, and GOP leaders are working behind the scenes to see what compromises can be made to stop it from a defeat on the House floor. [HuffPost]

EVALUATING NEIL GORSUCH’S HEARINGS THUS FAR Trump’s Supreme Court nominee “ducked and dodged like a pro,” all while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a delay in a vote on his nomination for as long as Trump’s campaign remains under investigation by the FBI. [HuffPost]

CLINTON WORLD CAN’T GET OVER JAMES COMEY “There were two active investigations involving presidential candidates last year, and he only told the voters about one.” [HuffPost]

NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCH FAILS The missile appears to have exploded within seconds of launch. And a Pyongyang envoy told Reuters that the current and probable impending sanctions were not something the country was afraid of. [Reuters]

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD GOES AFTER TRUMP “If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? Would the rest of the world? We’re not sure …” [WSJ | Paywall]

NO CHARGES IN DEATH OF A PRISON INMATE WHO WAS FORCED TO TAKE A SCALDING SHOWER FOR 2 HOURS Witnesses said his skin appeared to be slipping off his body. [HuffPost]

TWITTER’S ANTI-TERRORISM EFFORTS INCLUDED SUSPENDING 376,000 ACCOUNTS IN LAST HALF OF 2016 For promoting terrorism. [HuffPost]

AT LEAST DOZENS WATCHED THE SEXUAL ASSAULT OF THIS TEEN ON FACEBOOK LIVE And no one reported it. [WaPo]

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Huffington Post: Family Doctor Raps Safe Sex Message For Seniors Over Vanilla Ice

Dr. Shannon Dowler, from Asheville, warns about the spread of sexually transmitted infections among older people in her reworking of Vanilla Ice’s 1990 hit “Ice, Ice, Baby.”

Under her hip hop alter ego of RapDktaD, she spits out catchy lines like, “If you have a problem, lube might solve it, see your family doc if it doesn’t resolve it.” 

“It’s tough, to tell a 72-year-old that they’re having their first herpes outbreak,” she told WLOS-TV. “If they’ve lost their partner, they’re suddenly developing a new relationship, and there’s a whole slew of STDs they’ve never heard about.”

Check out RapDktaD’s song above, and see how it compares to Vanilla Ice’s original below: 

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Huffington Post: While Trump Attacks Colin Kaepernick, The Quarterback Is Donating To Meals On Wheels

On Monday at a rally in Louisville, Kentucky, President Donald Trump took aim at NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who decided last season not to stand for the national anthem in protest of the mistreatment of people of color in the U.S.

“There was an article today … that NFL owners don’t want to pick [Kaepernick] up because they don’t want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump,” Trump said. “Do you believe that?”

He added, “I said, ‘If I remember that one, I’m gonna report it to the people of Kentucky because they like it when people actually stand for the American flag.’”

Kaepernick responded Tuesday not with his mouth, but with his money. NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport reported earlier today that the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback was donating $50,000 to Meals on Wheels America, which could face reduced federal funding if Trump’s budget were to be approved. (Worth noting: Meals on Wheels only gets a small percentage of its funding from the Community Development Block Grant and other federal programs that Trump has proposed cutting.)

Additionally, Kaepernick announced through Rapoport that he will donate $50,000 to Love Army for Somalia, a social media campaign to send 60 tons of food and water to Somalia to combat famine.  

As Colin Kaepernick waits for a job opportunity, he continues to donate to charity. His latest includes $50K for Meals on Wheels pic.twitter.com/j5ERyWpSz2

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 21, 2017

The 29-year-old donated the money despite remaining an unrestricted free agent since he opted out of his contract earlier this month. He has said he plans to stand during the national anthem next season should he get signed. 

Meals on Wheels thanked Kaepernick over Twitter on Tuesday for his donation, one of many the organization has received since news of potential budget cuts earned national attention last week. 

Thank you @Kaepernick7 for supporting seniors through your words and actions.https://t.co/2PBpeWh5lC

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La Times: Israeli prime minister talks of a snap election amid concerns over a new public broadcaster

A dispute over the reform of public broadcasting has plunged Israel’s coalition government into a crisis, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten to dissolve parliament and hold a snap election to block a plan to begin independent television and radio broadcasts.

The crisis highlights Netanyahu’s long-running mistrust of Israel’s mainstream print and broadcast news outlets, which he has accused of being “leftist” and “Bolshevik” and of engaging in a personal witch hunt against him.

Netanyahu helped pass legislation in 2014 to shutter Israel’s inefficient state-run broadcast authority and replace it with a new public broadcasting corporation whose executives wouldn’t be political appointees.

But in recent months, allies from his Likud Party have complained that the new broadcasting corporation is liable to be overly critical of the government. Netanyahu has pushed to have the start of broadcasts delayed and to pass a law to gain more control over public and commercial radio and television.

The new broadcasting corporation was expected to begin operating April 30, but Netanyahu said during the weekend that he had changed his mind.

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, leader of the Kulanu party, has argued that canceling the new corporation would be an unacceptable waste of public money.

The dispute came to a head when Netanyahu — hours before departing for a state visit to China — wrote on Facebook that he had reconsidered and would oppose the start of the new public broadcaster.

He wrote that it was necessary to protect the jobs of the 1,000 employees of the Israel Broadcast Authority, which the new corporation would replace. Meanwhile, his coalition whip warned in a television interview that Netanyahu might seek an early election if Kahlon didn’t back down.

“The Likud, and the prime minister, aren’t interested in elections,” said Ofir Akunis, a lawmaker from Netanyahu’s party, in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio on Tuesday. “But we aren’t afraid of them if it becomes a necessity.”

Israeli political observers and lawmakers in the parliamentary opposition say the dispute over the broadcaster is being used as an excuse by the prime minister to reshuffle Israel’s political deck at a time when he faces corruption inquiries — Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing — and pressure from Israeli settlement ideologues within his coalition to step up building in the occupied West Bank.

“During elections, there aren’t any investigations — maybe that’s the main reason” for the crisis, said Erel Margalit, a member of the opposition Labor Party, in an Army Radio interview Tuesday. “During elections, there are no indictments.”

Netanyahu has been questioned multiple times by police in recent months about a supply of expensive cigars and champagne provided by Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan. He has also been questioned about recorded discussions of an apparent deal to get favorable coverage in Israel’s biggest paid newspaper.

The Israeli leader believes a snap election will catch potential rivals from the right wing unprepared and is confident that he’ll still be able to vanquish challengers from center-left parties, said Yoaz Hendel, a former communications director for the prime minister.

A poll published by Channel 10 television news last week found that Netanyahu’s Likud Party would win a parliamentary vote if it were held today.

“Netanyahu has decided that he wants to go to elections, otherwise he wouldn’t gamble on the stability of his coalition,” Hendel said. “We all understand the dispute over the broadcast corporation is an excuse…. What you are seeing now is a game of brinkmanship.”

Long before President Trump began describing news outlets as the enemy and their reports as “fake news,” Israel’s prime minister has been butting heads with local media and individual journalists. The Israeli prime minister blamed hostile coverage of his first administration two decades ago for his failed attempt at reelection in 1999.

Netanyahu dissolved his government in 2014 and called a snap election to bury a bill supported by some coalition partners to weaken Israel Hayom, a freebie tabloid that provides sympathetic coverage and is owned by U.S. casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. In recent months, he has assailed individual investigative journalists as “extreme leftists” who try to brainwash Israelis.

Netanyahu views the media “as kryptonite, with the ability to neutralize and destabilize all the good work he’s trying to do,” said Mitchell Barak, an Israeli American public opinion expert.

The Israel Broadcast Authority has suffered from shrinking revenue, competition from younger commercial channels, and unwieldy salary agreements that have left little money for quality programming. In a controversial commercial from the 2015 election campaign, Netanyahu bragged that his reform of public broadcasting had defeated IBA union members in the same way he had confronted the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

“He’s paranoid, and not completely without reason,” said Oren Persico, a columnist at the Seventh Eye, a website devoted to media criticism. “He has received unflattering and at times unfair coverage. On the other hand, he is trying to control as much of broadcasting media as he possibly can.”

Mitnick is a special correspondent.

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La Times: Chef who made Julia Child cry headlines Santa Barbara food and wine event honoring her

Chef Nancy Silverton once made Julia Child cry — on TV, no less.

Actually it was a creme fraiche custard brioche tart that Silverton whipped up while a guest on Child’s ’90s cooking show that prompted tears of joy from the culinary legend.

(Watch this video from the PBS TV show “Cooking With Julia” that shows the touching, teary moment.)

In April, Silverton will headline the Santa Barbara Food & Wine Weekend, the fourth annual event dedicated to the spirit of Child as well as local chefs, wines and artisan foods.

Child’s foundation co-sponsors the weekend at the Bacara Hotel & Spa in Goleta from April 7 to 9. Visitors can buy tickets to a sparkling wine panel, farmers market tour of Santa Barbara, craft brewer garden and more.

Top events include:

—Wine reception featuring Silverton and hosted by the Santa Barbara Vintners. The evening includes a tribute to Child. $99 at the hotel’s Angel Oak restaurant, 7 p.m., April 7.

—Dinner with winemaker Richard Sanford that focuses on Santa Rita Hills wineries plus dinner with the hotel’s executive chef Vincent Lesage. $250 in the hotel’s ballroom, 7 p.m. April 8.

Free events on April 8 include a Q&A and book-signing with Alex Prudhomme, Child’s great-nephew, featuring his new book “The French Chef in America: Julia Child’s Second Act” at 2 p.m.; and a screening of the 2009 film “Julie & Julia” at 4 p.m.

See the schedule and buy tickets online.

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BBC: Martin McGuinness: NI Assembly to remember former minister

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Image caption Martin McGuinness’ sons, Fiachra and Emmet, carry their father’s coffin through the streets of his native Derry on Tuesday

The Northern Ireland Assembly is to meet later to remember former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness.

The speaker has invited members to gather at midday to pay tribute to the former IRA leader turned peacemaker.

The Sinn Féin politician died early on Tuesday in a Londonderry hospital with his family by his side. He was 66 years old.

He had been suffering from a rare heart condition. His funeral is to take place in his native Derry on Thursday.

The flag above Leinster House (Irish parliament) in Dublin will be flown at half-mast on Thursday.

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Image caption A book of condolence has been opened in Belfast City Hall

BBC News NI’s Political Editor Mark Devenport

The negotiations to restore Stormont’s power-sharing executive have a 27 March deadline.

It’s undoubtedly the case that his funeral will mean that the time that the Northern Ireland Office thought that they had to continue negotiating before the deadline will be taken up with other matters.

What impact will this have on the chances of agreement? They seemed pretty slim prior to Martin McGuinness’ death.

They still, I think, seem fairly slim although maybe it will inject a new mood into some of the discussions.

Vigils were held in Derry, Belfast and Dublin for the republican figurehead, who worked at the heart of the power-sharing government following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

A book of condolence has been opened in Belfast City Hall.

Image caption A book of condolence has been opened in Belfast City Hall

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Image caption Belfast’s Lord Mayor Brian Kingston signs the book of condolence at Belfast City Hall

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Image caption Mourners pay their respects at a vigil in Belfast’s Andersontown on Tuesday night

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Image caption The Belfast candlelight vigil was held at the former site of the Andersontown Police Station

Among the seismic moments in his time in government was the famous handshake with the Queen in 2012 and a toast to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.

Politicians and others have been giving their reaction to Mr McGuinness’ death, as have those who lost loved ones or were injured in the IRA campaign.

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Image caption The Queen and Martin McGuinness shook hands in public in 2012 in what was seen as a ‘seismic moment’ in his political journey

Mr McGuinness became deputy first minister in 2007, standing alongside Democratic Unionist Party leaders Ian Paisley, Peter Robinson and Arlene Foster.

Media captionA look back at the life of Martin McGuinness

A visibly ailing Mr McGuinness stood down from his post in January to protest against the DUP’s handling of an energy scandal, in a move that triggered a snap election.

Analysis: BBC News NI Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney

No-one knows how many people Martin McGuinness killed, directly or indirectly.

As a senior commander in the Provisional IRA for many years, there is no doubt there was blood on his hands.

Security sources say he went on to become chief of staff of the organisation from the early 1980s, right through until the end of the IRA’s campaign of violence.

Nothing happened in Derry without him knowing.

Read more here.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said: “He was a passionate republican who worked tirelessly for peace and reconciliation and for the re-unification of his country. But above all he loved his family and the people of Derry and he was immensely proud of both.”

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Image caption Bernie McGuinness looked on before her husband’s coffin was brought back to their home in the Bogside

Those who lost loved ones, or were injured in the IRA’s bombing campaigns, harbour painful memories.

Some said the pain had been soothed by McGuinness’ willingness to compromise for peace in Northern Ireland. Others were less forgiving.

Martin McGuinness grew up in Derry’s Bogside, radicalised, he said, by discrimination and murder in his city.

In 1972, at the age of 21, he was second-in-command of the IRA in Derry at the time of Bloody Sunday, when 14 civil rights protesters were killed in the city by soldiers.

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Image caption Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at the 1987 funerals of two IRA men in Derry

The years that followed saw the IRA hunger strikes, the Brighton bombing when Margaret Thatcher and the Tory Party conference were targeted and the Enniskillen bomb in 1987, in which 11 people died.

His shift to politics came slowly. Martin McGuinness was chief negotiator in the blossoming peace process and took on the post of education minister.

By 2007, he was Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister.

Media captionMartin McGuinness, from paramilitary to politician

In recent years, he said: “My war is over. My job as a political leader is to prevent that war and I feel very passionate about it.”

Mr McGuinness’ funeral will leave his home on Thursday at 13:20 GMT ahead of Requiem Mass at St Columba’s Church Longtower at 14:00. He will be buried in the City Cemetery.

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BBC: 'Sex assault' streamed on Facebook Live

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The alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by five or six males was streamed on Facebook Live, according to Chicago Police.

Around 40 people were said to have been watching the stream at one point but nobody reported the incident to police.

A police spokesman said authorities first learned of what happened after the girl’s mother approached the head of police as he was leaving a station.

Detectives have questioned several people but no arrests have been made.

The girl had been missing for a day but has now been reunited with her family.

The video has since been removed.

‘Hideous crimes’

Supt Eddie Johnson was shown screenshots from the video by the girl’s mother.

He was said to be “visibly upset” after seeing the footage.

“Crimes like this are hideous and we do not allow that kind of content on Facebook,” a spokeswoman for the company said.

“We take our responsibility to keep people safe on Facebook very seriously and will remove videos that depict sexual assault and are shared to glorify violence.”

In January, Chicago police arrested four people following a separate incident in which a man’s alleged assault was live streamed, also on Facebook Live.

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BBC: Luke Jenkins death: Family to receive High Court settlement

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Image caption Luke Jenkins suffered a cardiac arrest after being moved from intensive care onto a ward

The family of a child who died following heart surgery are expected to receive a financial settlement at London’s High Court later.

Luke Jenkins, seven, from Cardiff, suffered a cardiac arrest days after an operation at Bristol Children’s Hospital in March 2012.

An NHS Ombudsman report identified “missed opportunities” in his care.

The family will receive compensation from the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

Luke’s parents, Stephen Jenkins and Faye Valentine, claimed the ward he was transferred to was understaffed and Luke was not properly monitored.

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust said it “fully accepts there were failings in the care and treatment we gave him”.

Mr Jenkins has been unable to work since the death of his son.

Media caption‘The truth is all we’ve ever asked from [the NHS]’ says mother Faye Jenkins.

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BBC: President jokes while signing space agency funding bill

President Donald Trump joked that Nasa could send the US Congress to Mars as he signed a bill that guaranteed funding for the space agency for the next financial year.

The bill includes money to go towards a manned mission to Mars, Nasa’s next big goal.

Despite this, the Nasa budget fell slightly, from $19.5bn ( £15.6bn) in 2017 to $19.1bn in 2018.

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Thousands have fled northern Myanmar in recent months

The military launched a crackdown in Rakhine State after October attacks by militants

They trek for miles along a dangerous route — risking drowning, disease and capture by the military — to cross the border into neighboring Bangladesh, where refugee camps provide temporary shelter.

Tens of thousands of members of Myanmar’s Muslim minority have left in this fashion, and their treatment may amount to “crimes against humanity,” warns UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee.

“When there’s 77,000 people running away from their home towns, leaving everything … the international community should really step up to the plate,” she told CNN.

Lee has visited northern Rakhine State, which has been largely off limits to journalists and NGO workers since early October, and spoken to many refugees.

“What really struck me was when old men started to break down in tears in front of me and sob,” she said, when interviewed on CNN’s Newstream on Monday. “(They were) telling me they’ve seen their whole family killed in front of their eyes.”

Myanmar government spokeswoman Aye Aye Soe said the administration is “deeply concerned by reports of potential human rights abuses and have already set up an Investigation Commission led by Vice President U Myint Swe.”

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Violence

In a 4,000-word statement given to CNN in February, Aye Aye Soe denied allegations of human rights abuses in Rakhine.

“What is happening in Rakhine now is only security clearance sweeps being carried out with restraint and within rules and regulations against armed perpetrators,” she said. “The instigators are using this situation to portray a disproportionate picture of ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’.”

The violence began on October 9, when according to state media, a group of around 300 armed men attacked soldiers and police, sparking an intense crackdown by the Myanmar military.

“We attacked them using our machetes, swords, and knives, and we seized their weapons to use against them,” Atah Ullah — leader of the Harakat al-Yaqeen, or “Faith Movement,” which carried out the attack — told CNN earlier this year.

“We, the vulnerable and persecuted people, have asked the international community for protection against the atrocities by the government of Myanmar, but the international community turned its back on us,” he said. “Finally, we cannot take it anymore.”

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With the Myanmar military arresting hundreds of people in Rakhine, deploying attack helicopters and allegedly setting fire to villages, thousands of Rohingya refugees have poured over the border to camps in Bangladesh.

Amnesty International said it has documented “a wide range of human rights violations” since the crackdown began, while Human Rights Watch accused the military of “numerous abuses … including widespread arson, extrajudicial killings, and systematic rape and other sexual violence.”

“I would not use (the word genocide) right now but it could amount to crimes against humanity,” said Lee.

She called on the international community to “walk the talk” on Myanmar, adding that Aung San Suu Kyi — the country’s long term democracy icon and de facto head of state — “could and should speak up a little more.”

“It is important that the Investigation Commission is allowed to complete its work, and to demonstrate that Myanmar’s own institutions are able to address our human rights challenges,” Aye Aye Soe said.

“In the meantime, we will continue to seek long term solutions to bring about lasting peace and stability in Rakhine.”

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