YIKES: Canadian Police Livestream Double Homicide Announcement With Cat Ear Filter

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia accidentally broadcast cat ears and whiskers onto one of their officers as she announced updates about a double homicide.

The press conference regarding the killing of an American woman and her Australian boyfriend was being streamed to Facebook Live when police claim that the filter turned on automatically.

“[W]e are aware and addressing it as it’s an automatic setting. Thank you, we will rectify and issue a video shortly,” the RCMP tweeted as the press conference was taking place.

Sgt. Janelle Shoihet, the officer who was speaking, ultimately ended up apologizing for the technical difficulties and re-recorded the entire press conference.

Sgt. Shoihet was discussing the case of Chynna Noelle Deese, 24, and Lucas Robertson Fowler, 23, who were both found dead on a remote patch of Highway 97 earlier this week.

The RCMP is asking for anyone with information about the murders to contact them here.

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Massachusetts Police Department Pleads With Criminals to Wait and Commit Crimes After the Weather Cools Down

The Braintree Police Department is pleading with criminals to “hold off until Monday” before committing crimes due to the extreme heat in Massachusetts over the weekend.

The department explained that “conducting criminal activity in this extreme heat is next level henchmen status.”

While the hilarious post was obviously in jest, it is expected to reach 111 degrees in Braintree this weekend.

“Folks. Due to the extreme heat, we are asking anyone thinking of doing criminal activity to hold off until Monday. It is straight up hot as soccer balls out there. Conducting criminal activity, in this extreme heat is next level henchmen status, and also very dangerous,” the post began. “Stay home, blast the AC, binge Stranger Things season 3, play with the face app, practice karate in your basement We will all meet again on Monday when it’s cooler.”

The post was signed “the PoPo” and asked readers to refrain from posting Stranger Things season three spoilers.

Within two days the post had already been shared over 127,000 times.

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BBC surrenders to the Mullahs’ propaganda campaign

See also: Chicoms ‘persuade’ Hollywood to censor ‘Top Gun’ to their liking

The British Broadcasting Corporation has been living off its reputation, hard-won in World War II, for the better part of a century.  While the government corporation is still able to produce compelling costume dramas and other fiction with good results, its news operations consistently are hostile to Israel, and soft on Muslims.

The latest example is startling, and cimes from – of all places — the Huffington Post and progressive Muslim writer Yashar Ali:

The BBC has agreed to conditions set by the Islamic Republic of Iran to not share reporting materials it gathers in Iran with its Persian-language channel, BBC Persian, an internal email obtained by HuffPost reveals. The agreement represents a capitulation to a government that has been hostile to press freedom. The Iranian government routinely shuts down media organizations critical of the regime and imprisons, tortures and executes journalists.

The agreement was made with the Iranian government in exchange for Iran allowing a BBC correspondent into the country, and, according to emails that HuffPost obtained, it’s not the first time the British broadcaster has agreed to such terms.

The email, sent Saturday to all BBC Persian staff by a BBC Persian digital editor, said that BBC foreign correspondent Martin Patience and his team were in Iran “and due to leave on Sunday.”

The email goes on to say, “It is absolutely imperative that none of their material is run on BBC Persian TV, Radio or Online now or in the future. That includes any official BBC Persian social feed retweeting or forwarding the coverage. Please do not use the material and stories produced in Iran on any platform or in any format.”

It’s unclear who at the BBC agreed to the exclusivity terms.

AT readers may be reminded of CNN’s agreements with Cuba and Saddam-era Iraq to keep their correspondents in those regimes safe in return to capitulation on their journalistic integrity. Now, the BBC has lowered itself to the level of a third rank cable news outfit.

See also: Chicoms ‘persuade’ Hollywood to censor ‘Top Gun’ to their liking

The British Broadcasting Corporation has been living off its reputation, hard-won in World War II, for the better part of a century.  While the government corporation is still able to produce compelling costume dramas and other fiction with good results, its news operations consistently are hostile to Israel, and soft on Muslims.

The latest example is startling, and cimes from – of all places — the Huffington Post and progressive Muslim writer Yashar Ali:

The BBC has agreed to conditions set by the Islamic Republic of Iran to not share reporting materials it gathers in Iran with its Persian-language channel, BBC Persian, an internal email obtained by HuffPost reveals. The agreement represents a capitulation to a government that has been hostile to press freedom. The Iranian government routinely shuts down media organizations critical of the regime and imprisons, tortures and executes journalists.

The agreement was made with the Iranian government in exchange for Iran allowing a BBC correspondent into the country, and, according to emails that HuffPost obtained, it’s not the first time the British broadcaster has agreed to such terms.

The email, sent Saturday to all BBC Persian staff by a BBC Persian digital editor, said that BBC foreign correspondent Martin Patience and his team were in Iran “and due to leave on Sunday.”

The email goes on to say, “It is absolutely imperative that none of their material is run on BBC Persian TV, Radio or Online now or in the future. That includes any official BBC Persian social feed retweeting or forwarding the coverage. Please do not use the material and stories produced in Iran on any platform or in any format.”

It’s unclear who at the BBC agreed to the exclusivity terms.

AT readers may be reminded of CNN’s agreements with Cuba and Saddam-era Iraq to keep their correspondents in those regimes safe in return to capitulation on their journalistic integrity. Now, the BBC has lowered itself to the level of a third rank cable news outfit.

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Trump Campaign Is Now Selling Plastic Straws To Own The Libs

As California and other places around the country implement bans on plastic drinking straws, the Trump 2020 campaign is taking a different approach.
The campaign is now selling “Trump Straws” in packs of 10 for $15. The plastic straws are red and say “Trump.” The campaign’s merchandise website states that “Liberal paper straws don’t work,” and describes the straws as:

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Stephen Miller: ‘The Squad’ ‘Detests America as It Exists’

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” White House adviser Stephen Miller defended President Donald Trump’s tweets directed at “The Squad,” Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

Miller said, “Let me just cut to the heart of the issue. These four congresswomen detest America as it exists, as it is currently constructed. They want to tear down the structure of our country. They wanted to be a socialist, open borders country. If you, as Donald Trump says, want to destroy America with open borders, you cannot see you love your country. If you attack border agents the way Ocasio-Cortez has it means you have a deep-seated hatred of the nation as it exists. That’s why you want to erase its borders, fundamentally transform the country and in the process it doesn’t matter if American citizens lose their jobs, lose their homes, lose their livelihoods, lose their health coverage and lose their very lives.”

He added, “There’s a gigantic, enormous distinction between Donald Trump saying I’m going to get on the world stage and put America first in every single thing we do versus a view that says America should never come first and American citizens should never come first, which is their view, and that’s what we are going to take to the ballot box.”

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Stephen Miller: ‘Racist’ Used By Left to Silence, Punish, Suppress People They Disagree With

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” White House adviser Stephen Miller defended President Donald Trump’s tweets directed at the so-called “Squad,” Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

Miller said, “I think the term racist, has become a label that is too often deployed by left Democrats in this country simply to try to silence and punish and suppress people they disagree with, speech that they don’t want to hear. The reality is that this president has been a president for all Americans, whether you look at historically low black unemployment rates, historically low Spanish unemployment rates. Or what he’s doing on immigration truths protect safety, security, rising wages for all American citizens.”

He continued, “I fundamentally disagree with the view that if you criticize someone and they happen to be a different color skin that that makes it a racial criticism.”

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U.S. Officials: Iran-Allied Shiite Militias in Iraq ‘Extort and Terrorize’ Religious Minorities

WASHINGTON, DC — Some factions of a Baghdad-sanctioned organization of mainly Iranian-backed Shiite militias are engaging in egregious violations such as torture, extrajudicial detentions, rape, extortion, and kidnappings in northern Iraq’s Nineveh province, where persecuted religious minorities like Christians are struggling to recover from the Islamic State atrocities, top U.S. officials said this week.

Kristina Arriaga, the vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), cautioned on Tuesday that the organization known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), or Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic, could “finish what ISIS started,” referring to the Sunni terrorist group’s efforts to annihilate religious minorities.

The comments from Arriaga came during the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a three-day summit at the U.S. Department of State this week that began on July 16.

On the first day of the ministerial summit at State, Arriaga lambasted Baghdad’s support for the PMF, adding that the international community is ignoring the abuses by the Iran-allied group.

Arriaga declared:

AT USCIRF, we do not feel we have a good partner in the Baghdad government. Baghdad has not been supporting genocide recovery efforts and has not been respectful of its international commitments. This is all while the international community turns a blind eye towards the PMF’s criminal behavior against religious minorities in Iraq. The PMF currently operates in ways that are not conducive to religious freedom. They hover over minority communities.

The vice-chair warned that an attack on religious minorities at the hands of the Shiite fighters could reverse the U.S. gains in favor of Christians, Yazidis, and other groups.

“Our [U.S.] government has received reports of numerous incidents of [PMF criminal behavior],” the Arriaga said. “If there’s a single attack on these minorities, these minorities will leave Iraq.

In some of its recent annual International Religious Freedom Report, the State Department condemned the PMF for abuses against religious minorities in Nineveh province, the historical homeland of Christians in Iraq that is also home to the largest concentration of religious minorities in the country.

Nineveh Plain, located in Nineveh province, is considered to be the cradle of Christianity.

During the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a three-day summit at the U.S. State Department this week that began on July 16, Vice President Mike Pence declared on Thursday:

Of course, Iran’s leaders aren’t content to persecute only their own people. They routinely export terrorism and chaos to countries throughout the region, including its neighbor Iraq. To this day, Iranian-backed militias extort and terrorize the people of the Nineveh Plain, which is still recovering from the days of ISIS’s brutal reign.

The United States will not stand idly by while Iranian-backed militias spread terror.

Under U.S. President Donald Trump, the United States has devoted $340 million to help religious minorities in Iraq alone, particularly victims of ISIS’s genocide campaign, mainly Yazidis and Christians, but also Shabaks and Turkmen, all of whom reside in Nineveh.

 

Breitbart News learned from representatives from Christians and Yazidis that the Trump administration is bypassing Baghdad and the United Nations and directly providing aid to genocide victims through U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and faith-based partners. The religious minorities welcome the move, noting that Baghdad has diverted U.S. aid intended for them away towards other projects.

“The government of Baghdad must be treated like an international pariah until they stop funding the Iran-backed militias and support genocide recovery, we should be careful about any funding that goes through the central government,” Arriaga proclaimed.

“The Prime Minister of Iraq has mentioned publicly he wants to come to Washington, DC. He seems to be operating under the assumption that the United States does not care for his support of the PMF,” she added.

Although the PMF is predominantly made up of Shiite fighters, it also includes Sunni tribesmen, Kurdish fighters, and even some Christians. The U.S. has repeatedly described some PMF units — Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH), accused of killing many U.S. troops between 2006 and 2011— as terrorist groups intent on pushing the U.S. troops out of the region in and around Iraq through any means necessary.

As they helped local forces and the U.S.-led coalition push Sunni ISIS out of their major stronghold in Iraq, however, Baghdad legalized the entire PMF as a component of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF).

The Iraqi government has struggled to rein in the Shiite fighters ambition to expand their power, influence, and territorial control.

Suggesting that it does not believe Baghdad has full control of the PMF, the U.S. Department of State sanctioned the Harakat Hezbollah al Nujaba (HHN) unit as a terrorist group in March.

In May 2018, State accused a Shabak Shiite minority PMF unit of harassing and sexually assaulting Iraqi Christians who survived the recent genocide campaign by ISIS.

On Thursday, Pence announced that the United States has placed sanctions on two leaders PMF leaders, including a Shabak leader and a Christian chief over corruption and violations of religious freedoms and other human rights in Nineveh province, the historical homeland of followers of Christ and home to the largest concentration of minorities in Iraq.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday identified the two PMF leaders, both allegedly guilty of “serious human rights abuses … in areas where persecuted religious communities are struggling to recover from the horrors inflicted on them by ISIS” as Rayan al-Kildani (Shabak) of the 50th Brigade militias unit and Waad Qado (Christian), the chief of the 30th Brigade wing.

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Report: Nearly Half of Young European Jews Victims of Antisemitism

TEL AVIV – Forty-four percent of young Europeans Jews have been the victim of an antisemitic incident in the past year and almost half of them choose not to wear items of clothing identified with Judaism out of fear for their safety, a new European Union report found.

More than half the 16-34-year-olds surveyed were students. Eighty-five percent said that as Jews they are blamed for the actions of the Israeli government at least occasionally, while a quarter said it happens “all the time.”

With 16,000 young Jews surveyed from 12 EU member states, this is the largest poll of its kind.

The poll noted that those surveyed were a “well-educated group, with strong roots in Europe and strong attachments to the countries in which they live.”

Despite that, the poll noted, “four in five believe antisemitism to be a problem in their countries, and the same proportion believes the problem to have deteriorated in recent years.”

In a foreword to the report, Director of the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) Michael O’Flaherty called the results “deeply troubling.”

“These findings make for grim reading,” O’Flaherty writes. “We must fight antisemitism by tackling it at its roots, no matter how difficult that is.”

The percentage of all Jews suffering antisemitism was “strikingly high,” the report said, however “young people are clearly the most vulnerable group.”

Eighty percent of victims of antisemitic harassment and 51% of victims of antisemitic violence did not report it to local authorities.

Across the three age groups surveyed, antisemitism was perpetrated most often by “someone with a Muslim extremist view.”

Twenty-one percent identified the perpetrator as “someone with a left-wing political view,” and 14% pointed to “someone with a right-wing political view.”

Many of the incidents were perpetrated by a “teenager or group of teenagers,” or a “colleague from work or school/college,” the report said, noting that this raises a question about the extent to which this is happening within the university sector.

“Existing evidence shows that Jewish university students — especially those involved in some way in student politics — are known to be particularly susceptible to antisemitic harassment from their fellow students, often expressed in the form of anti-Israel discourse,” the report said.

“Such highly politicized university environments, often fueled by a staunchly leftist political agenda, can feel acutely uncomfortable, and indeed antisemitic, for many of them,” it adds.

Thirty-seven percent of young European Jews say that the Israeli-Arab conflict affects their feeling of safety in their own country “a great deal,” while one in ten say it has no effect.

Eighty-one percent of young Jews said antisemitism is a problem in their country, with 83% saying the problem has been on the rise over the past five years.

“The Jewish population of Europe has been in a state of decline for a century and a half now, and leaders working at the European, national and local levels have a fundamental responsibility to construct a social and political context in which Jews, and indeed all minorities, feel safe,” the report’s author Dr. Jonathan Boyd said. “For all the efforts many good people are making on all of these levels, these data suggest that much more still needs to be done.”

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FNC’s Pirro on ‘The Squad’: ‘They Know How to Weaponize Their Hate’

Saturday during the “Opening Statement” segment of her Fox News Channel program “Justice,” host Jeanine Pirro hammered “The Squad,” a foursome of freshman Democrat congresswomen who are in a public feud with President Donald Trump.

Pirro criticized the four for their left-wing agenda and explained how they villainize opponents, including Trump by “weaponizing” hate.

“[L]et me tell you about ‘The Squad’: a benign-sounding high school term that in reality, presents a dangerous assault on everything we hold dear,” she said. “These four freshman congresswomen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley are radical socialists who want to punish success and destroy capitalism. They know how to weaponize their hate. And don’t you dare criticize them. If you do, they will do everything within their power to destroy you, or if you’re the president, impeach you — if you don’t share their radical, socialist, leftist, ‘hate America’ agenda. And if you don’t, you’re a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, a xenophobe or just plain deplorable.”

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