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Sheinbaum, 61, is poised to make history as Mexico’s first female president and first Jewish head of state. Polls a week before Mexico’s election show her enjoying a wide lead over the next candidate, the conservative entrepreneur Xóchitl Gálvez. Still, after nearly a quarter-century in the public eye, she remains an enigma, known mainly as the low-key protégé of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the charismatic leader known as AMLO. AMLO doesn’t speak English and dislikes traveling abroad. Sheinbaum did postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley; her sister and daughter live in the United States. The president,...

“Resentful childless harpies unconsciously longing for domination. Why else worship at the altar of Hamas? Why else would it be so overwhelmingly female?” — Dr. Jordan Peterson. Wasn’t it cute how the youngsters who “occupied” Columbia U’s Hamilton Hall — and were busy smashing things up inside — demanded restaurant-grade meals sent in to avert “starvation and dehydration” amongst their dauntless ranks? You could imagine a colossal mommy breast with three hundred nipples descending from the sky over upper Manhattan to nourish them back to action. “Feed me. . . !” It turns out, actually, that at least half the...

Today is the day of the “March For Our Lives,” which has now transformed into al all-out anti-gun, anti-2nd amendment and anti-Trump movement. Taking place in cities all across the country and funded by anti-gun left wing organizations, it will become a debacle that did not need to occur. Ostensibly created by the Parkland school youth it is now working with adults from groups like March for Women Live Action Fund, MoveOn.org, The Giffords group, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and of course Everytown, Bloomberg’s gun confiscation group who have spewed lies throughout the time since the...

High school students in Stockton, California walked out of school last Friday to demand more gun control in the wake of the Parkland shooting in Florida. However, some of the kids turned violent and began throwing rocks at cars and a handful got into a fight with a police officer. From KCRA:

The bad news is that student protesters today are more openly totalitarian than demonstrators of the 1960s. The good news: They’re less destructive. "At the University of Kansas, where I graduated, students torched the student union [in the 1960s]," Hillsdale College professor David Whalen remembered in an appearance at HC’s Washington headquarters on March 22, 2016. "The present surge of violence is not as destructive, perhaps because of self-interest: There will be no place to get your latte without a student union," he wryly noted, "but these protests are against free speech while the ones in the 1960s at least...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has used the military, legislative and judicial power consolidated during 15 years of socialist rule in a sudden series of blows against opponents who have spent more than a month protesting in the streets, knocking down their barricades and throwing dissident leaders in jail..... [SNIP] Maduro's rivals said they would not be bullied into submission, vowing new marches. Two-time opposition presidential candidate and Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles said through his Twitter account Thursday that Maduro had "thrown gasoline on the fire." "He and only he will be responsible for the situation...

Editor's Note: Originally posted yesterday at Gaze of a Nation, I share it with readers today, unedited, due to the time-sensitive nature of its content.

Social Media Facilitates Iran Student Protests Sarah Carlsruh, December 14, 2009 On Monday, December 7th—Iran’s national Student Day—thousands of students at Universities across Iran commemorated the 1953 murder of three student protestors of monarch Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. While demonstrations occur on this day every year, they have always represented an anti-American sentiment; this year they protested the government. Tehran University has long been a center for government protests and this Student Day—with green banners flying amidst tear gas and anti-riot police batons—was no different. Protests occurred on campuses across the country. The anti-government Green Movement, led in large part...

These little Che Guevaras and Obamas finally ran everyone's patience at NYU to an end. highlights are: spouting the usual mob-rule collectivist nonsense about "democratic process," threatening the administration, shouts of "police brutality," and, my personal favorite, trying to tell the security and police staffs what they can and cannot do..It's classic collectivist nonsense. If I came away with anything from this video, it's that I do not want my kids to go to NYU. What a bunch of snotty little Ches.

2008 Milton Friedman Award by: Bethany Stotts, May 01, 2008 Yon Goicoechea, the leader of the Venezuelan Student Movement, has recently been declared the winner of the 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. The CATO Institute-sponsored prize of $500,000 will be presented to Goicoechea on May 15 at the Waldorf=Historia Hotel in New York City. Many credit Goicoechea with thwarting a 2007 referendum which contained 69 constitutional amendments designed to centralize unprecedented economic and political power within the government. At a March 2008 CATO briefing, Gustavo Tovar (another movement leader) said of his fellow panelist, Goicoechea, that “The leaders...

Iranian students need solidarity Jordan Michael Smith May 29, 2006 Most political activity on campus consists of organizing and demonstrating against capitalism, the U.S., and student tuition. The latter is a noble cause, of benefit to both students and society at large. Tuition should be within financial reach for anyone who is academically able to grasp it, and societies with the better-skilled and educated workforces dominate the international workplace. At the same time though, students seem to feel they should bear no cost for being educated. No matter how low tuition is, they always want it be lower. Moreover, lowering...

<p>A peaceful school-sanctioned protest march in support of illegal immigrants turned ugly Monday when students from Santa Barbara High pelted the home of an elderly couple with rocks and eggs.</p> <p>The incident took place at the home of Joel and Eloise Gomez on East Canon Perdido Street after the couple exchanged words with some of the 300 or so students making their way back to campus, about one block away.</p>

Of particular interest to L.A. taxpayers are these assurances from the school district: And this: The Los Angeles Times reports: As of midafternoon, more than 22,000 students had walked out of classes in "little bits here and there," according to Ellen Morgan, spokesperson for the Los Angeles Unified School District. A total of 60 schools were involved. Many students waved Mexican flags as they poured out of schools and onto city streets. "Everything has been calm and there have been no reports of injuries or incidents," said Morgan. The major walkouts were: Kennedy High School in the San Fernando Valley,...

PARIS - French student groups, bolstered by a firm show of support from trade unions, led a new protest march Tuesday to ratchet up pressure on the premier to scrap a contested labor law. Dominique de Villepin, meeting with ruling party lawmakers, expressed willingness to soften two provisions of the contested "first job contract" — but refused to consider canceling it altogether. As he spoke, the fourth student-led protest in eight days began in the capital, with thousands marching across the Left Bank and shouting "It's the street that rules!" in defiance of Villepin. The protests — at times violent...

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac on Monday backed his prime minister in a confrontation over a youth job law, urging unions and students to enter constructive talks on the measure rather than threaten strikes. Buoyed by protests at the weekend that organizers said brought 1.5 million people on to the streets nationwide, union leaders set a Monday evening deadline for the government to withdraw or suspend the so-called First Job Contract (CPE) law. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has shown no signs of backing down over the law, which allows employers to fire people under 26 for any...

PARIS - Tear gas. Students clashing with police around the famed Sorbonne university in Paris. Barricades in the capital's streets. Is March 2006 proving to be May 1968 all over again? So far, no. While comparisons between the student protests of then and now are tempting, they are also misleading. The young protesters of '68 wanted to turn French society upside down. "Break the old molds" was one of their many slogans. Their children want not revolution but status quo: the same access to pensions, jobs, prosperity and generous welfare systems their parents enjoyed. In short, a comfortable European lifestyle...

Students Boo the Regime's President SMCCDI (Information Service) Sep 27, 2003 Students booed Mohamad Khatami, the regime's president, as he was fixing to leave the Alameh Amini Auditorium of Tehran University. The cold and protestful reception, by the students, of the regime's head followed his speech, under high security measures and in presence of selected people, marking the begining of the Universities Starting Year. Students are intending to carry more protest actions in this started year and are no more contenting to simple demands. The first wide scale action is planned for Monday.(9/29)

U.S. satellite feeds to Iran jammed May be linked to the anniversary of student uprisings By Robert WindremNBC NEWS PRODUCER NEW YORK, July 9 — U.S. government officials as well as Iranian Americans and communications satellite operators confirm that all U.S.-based satellite broadcasts to Iran are being jammed by an unknown group or individual, possibly Iranian agents operating out of Latin America.    OVER THE PAST several months, private Iranian-American groups have begun increasing their broadcasts into Iran using Telstar-12, a communications satellite over the eastern Atlantic. All are trying to encourage protests against the regime in Tehran.   ...

Copyright 2003 The Financial Times Limited  Financial Times (London) June 16, 2003, Monday London Edition 1 SECTION: MIDDLE EAST; Pg. 6 LENGTH: 427 words HEADLINE: Iran student protests spread to other cities BYLINE: By NAJMEH BOZORGMEHR DATELINE: TEHRAN BODY:Anti-regime protests in Tehran, led by students, have spread to other cities, while Iran's Islamic establishment has slammed US support for the demonstrators as interference in the country's internal affairs. The protests continued early yesterday morning in Tehran for the fifth successive day, though on a smaller scale than previously. Few clashes were reported amid a heavy presence of police and Islamic...

Fox News just broke in with an alert stating that Reuters is reporting gunshots at the scene of Iranian protests. People wearing kevlar and wielding AK's have been seen. No word on casualties as of yet.