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Palestinian-American Boy, 6 Stabbed to Death, as Hate Crimes Escalate
The boy, 6, was stabbed 26 times with a large military-style knife, according to an autopsy, while his mother is in hospital.
U.S. police have arrested a 71-year-old man and charged him with murder and a hate crime after he allegedly stabbed a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy to death and critically injured his 32-year-old mother in retaliation for the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The Will County Sheriff’s Office, located outside of Chicago, issued a statement on Sunday saying that their investigation had led them to the conclusion that both victims in the violent attack were targeted by the suspect because of their religion and the ongoing struggle between Hamas and the Israelis in the Middle East.
On Saturday morning, police located both bodies in a residence about 65 kilometres (40 miles) southwest of Chicago.
Autopsy results released on Sunday indicated that the youngster, who was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital, had been stabbed 26 times with a big military-style knife.
More than a dozen stab wounds covered the mother’s body. She was still in the hospital on Sunday, but doctors thought she would make it.
Even as it prepares a ground invasion, Israel is bombing a Palestinian enclave it has been surrounding for months.
Unnamed police say they found the suspect “sitting upright outside on the ground near the driveway of the residence” on Saturday with a wound on his forehead.
On Sunday, he remained in police detention pending his upcoming court date. First degree murder, attempted first degree murder, two counts of hate crimes, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon are all charges against him, according to the police.
Chicago CAIR director Ahmed Rehab said, “Our hearts are heavy, and our prayers are with the darling boy and his mother.”
Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian-American kid who had just turned six, and his mother Hanaan Shahin were named as the victims by the organisation.
CAIR said in a statement, “While we wait for the official investigation of the local authorities, what we can confirm at the moment is that we have a murdered child in his own home, a six-year-old who had just celebrated his birthday a couple of weeks ago, and a mother lying in the hospital in serious condition, both stabbed over a dozen times.”
Rehab claimed that the surviving mother had testified to the events to CAIR. We trust the police to thoroughly examine this horrific act as a hate crime, he stated in a statement.
The charity claims that the family of five spent two years in the house’s basement. According to the reports, the suspect was their landlord.
CAIR-Chicago called the crime “our worst nightmare” and part of a disturbing spike in hate calls and emails since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, citing text messages from the mother to the boy’s father as evidence that the suspect yelled, “You Muslims must die!” before the stabbing.
Jewish, Palestinian Hate Crimes
A growing number of Jewish and Palestinian Americans live in fear that the “isolating and scary” tensions between Israel and Palestine may lead to an increase in hate crimes and harassment in cities across the United States.
Bay Ridge has long served as a haven of security for the city’s Arab American community. There is a large Palestinian, Yemeni, Syrian, and Egyptian community in this 3 square mile area of south Brooklyn.
On Wednesday, though, news of a hate crime pierced that bubble of security.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a statement this week saying that police reported that “three alleged assailants in three cars were waving Israeli flags” and shouting “anti-Palestinian remarks at three men walking on 86th Street.” As soon as they parked, “the group jumped out and began attacking the three men.”
ABC7, a local Brooklyn news station, said that two guys approached two persons waving Palestinian flags, stole one of the flags, and beat one of the protesters in the head. Two young boys in Gravesend, Brooklyn brandished what turned out to be toy weapons at the B’nai Yosef synagogue, according to the police. The juvenile court issued criminal summonses for the lads.
The FBI released a report earlier this year showing that the number of hate crimes in the United States increased again in 2021.
“But this moment is different,” CAIR’s research and advocacy director Corey Saylor said. According to one student, “right now there is an unusually vicious targeting of students that support Palestine, and the volume and intensity is something I haven’t witnessed before.”
Saylor noted that the youth of the United States who have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people on college campuses have been the target of intense abuse and intimidation.
The Palestine Solidarity Committee at Harvard University sent a letter last week in which its signatories said they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
That the events “did not occur in a vacuum” was a common refrain. Other student organisations also signed a statement condemning the violence, expressing concern over “the devastating and rising civilian toll,” and pointing out that the treatment of Palestine by the Israeli government has contributed to “conditions of violence.”
Some Jewish students, offended that their peers seemed to blame only Israel for the violence, reacted negatively to the statement’s publishing, arguing that by remaining silent in the face of Hamas’s attacks and showing no compassion for the group’s innocent victims, the letter actually endorsed Hamas.
On Wednesday, a billboard truck featuring the names and photos of Harvard students who had signed the committee’s letter drove near the university’s campus.
“They’re not targeting longtime activists who are used to harassment,” Saylor emphasised. You’re targeting “young professionals,” “young adults,” and “people who aren’t likely to be full-time activists at the moment.”
He referred to the truck as a “political intimidation” tool.
One Harvard law student, Hejir Rashidzadeh, told ABC News, “This is the most tense campus has ever been.”
Bill Ackman, CEO of a billion dollar hedge fund, tweeted to the university, “Please release the names of the students who signed the letter to insure that we do not inadvertently hire any of their members.”
Former Hamas leader Khaled Mashal called for a global day of “anger” on Friday to send a “message of rage to Zionists and America,” and many Jewish Americans feared violence would rise as a result.
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC, among others, have increased security for citizens in anticipation of protests.
“We have reviewed this information in close coordination with our partners in law enforcement and Jewish security organisations,” the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group fighting antisemitism, said in a statement on Friday.
“At this time, the Centre on Extremism is not aware of any credible threats to Jewish communities in the United States,” the statement reads.
Jews in the United States remain concerned for their security. The Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Centre has been monitoring a disturbing increase in antisemitic sentiment in recent years, which they attribute to the burgeoning white supremacist movement in the United States.
Deputy director of research, reporting, and analysis at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project Rachel Carroll Rivas told the Guardian that there has been “an alarming amount of antisemitic activity across the US in recent years,” including “explicit” neo-Nazi organising and “more coded” conspiracies and Holocaust revisionism. During the Israel-Hamas war, this has made the country “ripe for manipulation.”
Twitter users in Irvine, California, shared photos of a man waving a Nazi flag earlier this week. After the Hamas strikes on Israel, a protester at a pro-Palestine rally in New York City displayed a phone with a swastika graphic.
“This moment is profoundly isolating and scary for our people,” said Audrey Sasson, executive director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice.
Sasson stated that many people in her liberal Jewish group are still looking for lost family members in Israel.
“We are close to this pain,” Sasson, who has friends and family in Israel right now, added. We may be concerned about and sad for the Israelis who have died, and we can feel sympathy for the people of Gaza who are under siege at the same time.
Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order for northern Gaza, home to over a million people, ahead of a planned ground assault, which the UN has called “impossible without devastating humanitarian consequences.”
Some Jewish Americans, like Sasson, have expressed concern over the widespread sharing of content depicting the destruction of Gaza on social media accounts owned by the Israeli government.
When asked about the Israeli government’s treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza, she stated, “Not in my name should you be starving and bombing an entire civilian population in Gaza.” I really hope that’s not a contentious statement.
The lack of more voices like Sasson’s causes concern among Palestinian Americans, who fear for the safety of their community.
Ussama Makdisi, a history professor at the University of California, Berkeley, remarked, “It’s as if the Hamas attacks were the beginning of the conflict, and everything before that never happened.”
Makdisi remarked on “how quickly and strongly” American business, academic, and governmental elites expressed their condolences for Israeli victims of violence.
They have not shown any compassion for Palestinian victims of violence, he claimed. “It’s heartless. Refusing to speak out against genocide diminishes Palestinian lives and tells Palestinian Americans, “you’re on your own.”
A recent report indicates that since Trudeau’s announcement of his gun buyback program four years ago, almost none of the banned firearms have been surrendered.
The federal government plans to purchase 2,063 firearm models from retailers following the enactment of Bill C-21, which amends various Acts and introduces certain consequential changes related to firearms. It was granted royal assent on December 15 of last year.
This ban immediately criminalized the actions of federally-licensed firearms owners regarding the purchase, sale, transportation, importation, exportation, or use of hundreds of thousands of rifles and shotguns that were previously legal.
The gun ban focused on what it termed ‘assault-style weapons,’ which are, in reality, traditional semi-automatic rifles and shotguns that have enjoyed popularity among hunters and sport shooters for over a century.
In May 2020, the federal government enacted an Order-in-Council that prohibited 1,500 types of “assault-style” firearms and outlined specific components of the newly banned firearms. Property owners must adhere to the law by October 2023.
Trudeau’s Buyback Hasn’t Happened
“In the announcement regarding the ban, the prime minister stated that the government would seize the prohibited firearms, assuring that their lawful owners would be ‘grandfathered’ or compensated fairly.” “That hasn’t happened,” criminologist Gary Mauser told Rebel News.
Mauser projected expenses ranging from $2.6 billion to $6.7 billion. The figure reflects the compensation costs amounting to $756 million, as outlined by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO).
“The projected expenses for gathering the illegal firearms are estimated to range from $1.6 billion to $7 billion.” “This range estimate increases to between $2.647 billion and $7 billion when compensation costs to owners are factored in,” Mauser stated.
Figures requested by Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs concerning firearms prohibited due to the May 1, 2020 Order In Council reveal that $72 million has been allocated to the firearm “buyback” program, yet not a single firearm has been confiscated to date.
In a recent revelation, Public Safety Canada disclosed that the federal government allocated a staggering $41,094,556, as prompted by an order paper question from Conservative Senator Don Plett last September, yet yielded no tangible outcomes.
An internal memo from late 2019 revealed that the Liberals projected their politically motivated harassment would incur a cost of $1.8 billion.
Enforcement efforts Questioned
By December 2023, estimates from TheGunBlog.ca indicate that the Liberals and RCMP had incurred or were responsible for approximately $30 million in personnel expenses related to the enforcement efforts. The union representing the police service previously stated that the effort to confiscate firearms is a “misdirected effort” aimed at ensuring public safety.
“This action diverts crucial personnel, resources, and funding from tackling the more pressing and escalating issue of criminal use of illegal firearms,” stated the National Police Federation (NPF).
The Canadian Sporting Arms & Ammunition Association (CSAAA), representing firearms retailers, has stated it will have “zero involvement” in the confiscation of these firearms. Even Canada Post held back from providing assistance due to safety concerns.
The consultant previously assessed that retailers are sitting on almost $1 billion worth of inventory that cannot be sold or returned to suppliers because of the Order-In-Council.
“Despite the ongoing confusion surrounding the ban, after four years, we ought to be able to address one crucial question.” Has the prohibition enhanced safety for Canadians? Mauser asks.
Illegally Obtained Firearms are the Problem
Statistics Canada reports a 10% increase in firearm-related violent crime between 2020 and 2022, rising from 12,614 incidents to 13,937 incidents. In that timeframe, the incidence of firearm-related violent crime increased from 33.7 incidents per 100,000 population in 2021 to 36.7 incidents the subsequent year.
“This marks the highest rate documented since the collection of comparable data began in 2009,” the criminologist explains.
Supplementary DataData indicates that firearm homicides have risen since 2020. “The issue lies not with lawfully-held firearms,” Mauser stated.
Firearms that have been banned under the Order-in-Council continue to be securely stored in the safes of their lawful owners. The individuals underwent a thorough vetting process by the RCMP and are subject to nightly monitoring to ensure there are no infractions that could pose a risk to public safety.
“The firearms involved in homicides were seldom legally owned weapons wielded by their rightful owners,” Mauser continues. The number of offenses linked to organized crime has surged from 4,810 in 2016 to a staggering 13,056 in 2020.
“If those in power … aim to diminish crime and enhance public safety, they ought to implement strategies that effectively focus on offenders and utilize our limited tax resources judiciously to reach these objectives,” he stated.
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Google is so closely associated with its key product that its name is a verb that signifies “search.” However, Google’s dominance in that sector is dwindling.
According to eMarketer, Google will lose control of the US search industry for the first time in decades next year.
Google will remain the dominant search player, accounting for 48% of American search advertising revenue. And, remarkably, Google is still increasing its sales in the field, despite being the dominating player in search since the early days of the George W. Bush administration. However, Amazon is growing at a quicker rate.
Google’s Search Dominance Is Unwinding
Amazon will hold over a quarter of US search ad dollars next year, rising to 27% by 2026, while Google will fall even more, according to eMarketer.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the forecast.
Lest you think you’ll have to switch to Bing or Yahoo, this isn’t the end of Google or anything really near.
Google is the fourth-most valued public firm in the world. Its market worth is $2.1 trillion, trailing just Apple, Microsoft, and the AI chip darling Nvidia. It also maintains its dominance in other industries, such as display advertisements, where it dominates alongside Facebook’s parent firm Meta, and video ads on YouTube.
To put those “other” firms in context, each is worth more than Delta Air Lines’ total market value. So, yeah, Google is not going anywhere.
Nonetheless, Google faces numerous dangers to its operations, particularly from antitrust regulators.
On Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Google must open up its Google Play Store to competitors, dealing a significant blow to the firm in its long-running battle with Fortnite creator Epic Games. Google announced that it would appeal the verdict.
In August, a federal judge ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly on search. That verdict could lead to the dissolution of the company’s search operation. Another antitrust lawsuit filed last month accuses Google of abusing its dominance in the online advertising business.
Meanwhile, European regulators have compelled Google to follow tough new standards, which have resulted in multiple $1 billion-plus fines.
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Google’s Search Dominance Is Unwinding
On top of that, the marketplace is becoming more difficult on its own.
TikTok, the fastest-growing social network, is expanding into the search market. And Amazon has accomplished something few other digital titans have done to date: it has established a habit.
When you want to buy anything, you usually go to Amazon, not Google. Amazon then buys adverts to push companies’ products to the top of your search results, increasing sales and earning Amazon a greater portion of the revenue. According to eMarketer, it is expected to generate $27.8 billion in search revenue in the United States next year, trailing only Google’s $62.9 billion total.
And then there’s AI, the technology that (supposedly) will change everything.
Why search in stilted language for “kendall jenner why bad bunny breakup” or “police moving violation driver rights no stop sign” when you can just ask OpenAI’s ChatGPT, “What’s going on with Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny?” in “I need help fighting a moving violation involving a stop sign that wasn’t visible.” Google is working on exactly this technology with its Gemini product, but its success is far from guaranteed, especially with Apple collaborating with OpenAI and other businesses rapidly joining the market.
A Google spokeswoman referred to a blog post from last week in which the company unveiled ads in its AI overviews (the AI-generated text that appears at the top of search results). It’s Google’s way of expressing its ability to profit on a changing marketplace while retaining its business, even as its consumers steadily transition to ask-and-answer AI and away from search.
Google has long used a single catchphrase to defend itself against opponents who claim it is a monopoly abusing its power: competition is only a click away. Until recently, that seemed comically obtuse. Really? We are going to switch to Bing? Or Duck Duck Go? Give me a break.
But today, it feels more like reality.
Google is in no danger of disappearing. However, every highly dominating company faces some type of reckoning over time. GE, a Dow mainstay for more than a century, was broken up last year and is now a shell of its previous dominance. Sears declared bankruptcy in 2022 and is virtually out of business. US Steel, long the foundation of American manufacturing, is attempting to sell itself to a Japanese corporation.
SOURCE | CNN
(VOR News) – A ruling that prohibits emergency abortions that contravene the Supreme Court law in the state of Texas, which has one of the most stringent abortion restrictions in the country, has been upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States. The United States Supreme Court upheld this decision.
The justices did not provide any specifics regarding the underlying reasons for their decision to uphold an order from a lower court that declared hospitals cannot be legally obligated to administer abortions if doing so would violate the law in the state of Texas.
Institutions are not required to perform abortions, as stipulated in the decree. The common populace did not investigate any opposing viewpoints. The decision was made just weeks before a presidential election that brought abortion to the forefront of the political agenda.
This decision follows the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that ended abortion nationwide.
In response to a request from the administration of Vice President Joe Biden to overturn the lower court’s decision, the justices expressed their disapproval.
The government contends that hospitals are obligated to perform abortions in compliance with federal legislation when the health or life of an expectant patient is in an exceedingly precarious condition.
This is the case in regions where the procedure is prohibited. The difficulty hospitals in Texas and other states are experiencing in determining whether or not routine care could be in violation of stringent state laws that prohibit abortion has resulted in an increase in the number of complaints concerning pregnant women who are experiencing medical distress being turned away from emergency rooms.
The administration cited the Supreme Court’s ruling in a case that bore a striking resemblance to the one that was presented to it in Idaho at the beginning of the year. The justices took a limited decision in that case to allow the continuation of emergency abortions without interruption while a lawsuit was still being heard.
In contrast, Texas has been a vocal proponent of the injunction’s continued enforcement. Texas has argued that its circumstances are distinct from those of Idaho, as the state does have an exemption for situations that pose a significant hazard to the health of an expectant patient.
According to the state, the discrepancy is the result of this exemption. The state of Idaho had a provision that safeguarded a woman’s life when the issue was first broached; however, it did not include protection for her health.
Certified medical practitioners are not obligated to wait until a woman’s life is in imminent peril before they are legally permitted to perform an abortion, as determined by the state supreme court.
The state of Texas highlighted this to the Supreme Court.
Nevertheless, medical professionals have criticized the Texas statute as being perilously ambiguous, and a medical board has declined to provide a list of all the disorders that are eligible for an exception. Furthermore, the statute has been criticized for its hazardous ambiguity.
For an extended period, termination of pregnancies has been a standard procedure in medical treatment for individuals who have been experiencing significant issues. It is implemented in this manner to prevent catastrophic outcomes, such as sepsis, organ failure, and other severe scenarios.
Nevertheless, medical professionals and hospitals in Texas and other states with strict abortion laws have noted that it is uncertain whether or not these terminations could be in violation of abortion prohibitions that include the possibility of a prison sentence. This is the case in regions where abortion prohibitions are exceedingly restrictive.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which resulted in restrictions on the rights of women to have abortions in several Republican-ruled states, the Texas case was revisited in 2022.
As per the orders that were disclosed by the administration of Vice President Joe Biden, hospitals are still required to provide abortions in cases that are classified as dire emergency.
As stipulated in a piece of health care legislation, the majority of hospitals are obligated to provide medical assistance to patients who are experiencing medical distress. This is in accordance with the law.
The state of Texas maintained that hospitals should not be obligated to provide abortions throughout the litigation, as doing so would violate the state’s constitutional prohibition on abortions. In its January judgment, the 5th United States Circuit Court of Appeals concurred with the state and acknowledged that the administration had exceeded its authority.
SOURCE: AP
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