The confiscation of Mr. Lopez's properties had little to do with his relationship to the Batista regime; it was part of the total confiscation of all businesses and private property on the island.
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Documentation of the confiscation is also part of the work.
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" Six paragraphs later, it's back to "a push for confiscation.
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And it really does seem like confiscation would be necessary.
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Rome wanted a resolution to the confiscation of its property.
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"Confiscation with compensation, as I would call it," Kapur said.
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How do you reach that conclusion about a gun confiscation bill?
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That puts them at risk of fines, property confiscation and arrest.
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The Fourteenth Amendment protects our homes from government spying and confiscation.
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Restricted licenses can lead to eviction and the confiscation of boats.
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They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.
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The entire initial restraint and confiscation process was illegal as well.
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" As the rally went on, occasional chants went up: "No confiscation!
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Plugging those cracks is doable without a wholesale confiscation of guns.
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Finally, he carried out this mass arrest and financial confiscation project.
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Critics argue that it amounts to de facto confiscation by the state.
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His critics, gun-rights advocates, heard him calling for confiscation of firearms.
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But they also documented protests over land confiscation, pollution and local corruption.
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He also said mandatory buybacks amounts to a "confiscation" of these weapons.
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Delaney considers her "wealth tax" vulnerable to constitutional challenge as confiscation of property.
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Therefore, the confiscation was carried out in accordance with the Civil Administration authorities.
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Methods for such confiscation, and what lands would qualify, are still under debate.
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A primary component of implementing fascist policies would be let&aposs say, gun confiscation.
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The Constitution guarantees this, and any confiscation of this right is unacceptable and unconstitutional.
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When people react to these exclusion conversations, you'd think the argument was for confiscation.
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The official declined to comment when asked about the confiscation of Ghosn's wife's possessions.
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About the same number thought confiscation of, or encroachment on, their land was likely.
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All the confiscation and law enforcement in the world will not cure this plague.
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After the confiscation, Ms. Trec rebuilt her colony and now has around 90 rabbits.
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And the confiscation is only temporary, subject to challenge and renewal at regular intervals.
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But in the interview, Mr. Soros says that he had only witnessed the confiscation.
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Something like Australia's law — which amounts to a confiscation program — is never seriously considered.
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The campaign group called on Qatar to abolish exit permits altogether and ban passport confiscation.
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A tax on the value of land is a partial but cumulative confiscation of property.
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The suit alleges forced overtime, unlawful salary deductions, passport confiscation and limited freedom of movement.
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President Barack Obama has never proposed mass-scale gun confiscation during his time in office.
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The conclusion is that some sinister plot was advanced, usually involving the confiscation of firearms.
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The government has made student loan debt the only debt you can't escape without confiscation.
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The court ordered the confiscation of more than 100 million euros worth of his assets.
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No summary data is available on actual penalties levied, but the confiscation toll keeps rising.
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Typically, either law enforcement officers or family members of the subject apply for such confiscation.
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Those convicted of violating the act faced prison sentences, fines, lashing and confiscation of property.
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If you're concerned that your devices will be targeted for confiscation and search, heed caution now.
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It could work against him if his criticism of weapon confiscation is interpreted as anti-police.
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One obstacle is the legitimate fear that any new regulation is one more step toward confiscation.
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He must obey the confiscation order or face an extra four years in prison, Korner said.
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It was a political case for avoiding a very controversial topic in gun policy: outright confiscation.
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Mandatory buybacks — which are effectively confiscation schemes — have been tried with more success in other countries.
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For instance, in Britain, there are nearly £2 billion, or $2.66 billion, in uncollected confiscation orders.
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What nation's legislature passed a controversial law this week concerning the potential confiscation of migrants' valuables?
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Janice was ordered to pay an additional £2,000 in court costs for challenging the confiscation order.
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It also doesn't offer to lower other taxes to offset the confiscation of the reinsurance funds.
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More confiscation implies higher gains, but too much will suffocate the ability of subjects to produce.
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Passing and enforcing widespread gun bans or confiscation programs still seem like a political long shot.
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Straying too close to the fishing limits can mean arrest and the confiscation of boats and nets.
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Trump has also faced criticism over his confiscation of translator notes from a separate conversation with Putin.
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He put the phone under an alias to protect his communications against hacking or confiscation, they said.
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Many could have been forced to continue to with a pregnancy as a result of the confiscation.
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Wang also faces 1 million yuan in fines and confiscation of his illegal gains, the court said.
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The Sharia punishment for Muslims who drop their faith is death and the confiscation of their property.
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The confiscation was part of then- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's move to nationalize his country's oil industry.
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Likewise, gun owners in both countries objected to the confiscation of their weapons, as they do here.
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Land confiscation and settlement expansion, however, are very much alive and have continued at an accelerated pace.
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Lawmakers cited offenses including extrajudicial killings, murders, confiscation of firearms without warrants and incarceration without due process.
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After further litigation, Judge Cooper would then rule that the Mongols' marks were not subject to confiscation.
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The thieves face 10 years' imprisonment and confiscation of personal property if they're convicted of armed robbery.
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The gun could be removed for up to one year with the option for renewal of confiscation.
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There is a government guideline advising against the confiscation of passports but it is not legally binding.
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With a diminished risk of arrest or confiscation, Humboldt pot properties are increasingly attractive to outside investors.
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The NYPD did not respond to VICE's request for comment on the circumstances surrounding this flamethrower's confiscation.
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This confiscation had been happening since 1980, but under this program, the farms were taken without compensation.
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Every day that vendors go out to sell, they run the risk of confiscation, jail, and even deportation.
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Licensing and registration did not lead to mass confiscation, and cars remain objects of maleness, power and freedom.
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Ince was protesting the confiscation of his video archive, which spans 2696 years of work, by Turkish authorities.
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The FCA said it would pursue confiscation proceedings against both men to claw back the proceeds of crime.
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We can pass measures like these without false fears of confiscation, in a way that protects due process.
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But such a policy would be electoral suicide, alienating millions of bank customers and sparking talk of confiscation.
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He urged tax evaders to come clean, or risk the confiscation of their property and time in jail.
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He said a ban should not result in the confiscation of firearms from those who already own them.
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Such laws often allow a judge to issue an order of confiscation "ex parte", meaning without you present.
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The spinner arm was usually a paper clip, which was technically minor contraband, but usually not worth confiscation.
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But he also made clear that Giffords is not calling for an assault weapons ban, let alone confiscation.
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For example, the person seeking a confiscation order must convince a judge that the subject poses a threat.
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Journalist groups on Wednesday condemned what they said was the police confiscation of Czech reporter Pavla Holcova's phone.
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There is this ridiculous notion, propounded by the NRA, that any regulation of guns will lead to confiscation.
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The tension resulted in the closing down of schools, confiscation of properties and the arrest of some clergy.
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Hariri said the law "tells thousands of Syrian families to stay in Lebanon" by threatening them with property confiscation.
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Yes, it should end the de facto confiscation of intellectual property of American firms that do business in China.
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We can pass "red flag laws" allowing confiscation of guns from high-risk individuals such as domestic abuse suspects.
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He, for instance, asked the candidates not about gun control, but to speak to Republican fears about gun confiscation.
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Iowa now joins most other states in providing express protections against firearms confiscation during weather or other declared emergencies.
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One woman was forced to sell her home to pay the confiscation order or face an additional jail sentence.
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The CPS seeks confiscation in cases which will achieve these objectives, regardless of the type of crime being committed.
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In many cases, the threat of a prison sentence which goes with an unpaid confiscation order can seem harsh.
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On Thursday, he continued to embrace his buyback proposal, practically inviting the "gun confiscation" hyperventilation it will inevitably engender.
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It was held on Palestinian Land Day, which commemorates the confiscation of Palestinian-owned land in Israel in 1976.
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In it, the interviewer, Steve Kroft, suggests that Mr. Soros participated in the confiscation of property from other Jews.
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She asked him if such a buyback plan would seem like confiscation and if so, galvanize gun rights activists.
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And they oppose higher taxes not just on practical grounds but in principle, as improper confiscation from owners of property.
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They are like a windfall tax or a confiscation of property—and, like any such levy, arouse fierce political resistance.
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Clinton has also said we should look to Australia's gun confiscation scheme as a potential model for American gun policy.
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"There was a decree of confiscation of any property of the Batista regime gotten through ill-gotten gains," Freyre said.
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Inside Bannon's White House there are rampant leaks, paranoia, cellphone confiscation, and in response, only toddling incompetence or indiscriminate rage.
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While the land confiscation is the hot-button issue currently, residents of Sevastopol tick off a long list of grievances.
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Britain's International Corruption Unit says its investigations have led to the confiscation of £76m ($117m) in laundered loot since 2006.
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There's scant actual evidence that this sort of mass confiscation would be on the agenda of any Democratic president. 9.
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The victims were made stateless, and subjected to humiliating exit procedures, which involved the confiscation of their possessions and savings.
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Perhaps for once Democrats will openly campaign on gun confiscation and we can see how that works out for them.
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Maltese prosecutors have asked a magistrate to order the confiscation of a migrant rescue ship run by a German aid group.
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Why pay more for a fancy gun you might have to toss away after a crime or lose to police confiscation?
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These apps record police interactions, and automatically send the videos to local ACLU chapters to prevent illegal confiscation from law enforcement.
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Ban cited Iran's complaints over U.S. visa restrictions and the confiscation of Iranian Central Bank assets under a U.S. court order.
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But Cartosio denied that there was any connection between the German NGOs' refusal to sign the code and the boat's confiscation.
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Showing a gun sale for all purchases would create a de facto registry and the government could use that for confiscation.
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"Those, who wish to slander us, have created unspeakable lies about passport confiscation, forced labor, incarceration, and violence," the statement said.
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The settlement is related to an ongoing case where the energy company had been seeking compensation related to confiscation of assets.
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A father on Delta is threatened with the confiscation of his children unless he relinquishes a seat he has paid for.
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Thomas MassieThomas Harold MassieO'Rourke gun confiscation talk alarms Democrats Scalise blasts Democratic legislation on gun reforms Airports already have plenty of infrastructure funding MORE (R-Ky.) railed against O'Rourke's proposal, calling it "the first step in a full confiscation" of Americans' firearms and insisting that O'Rourke's views were representative of Democrats' broader plans for gun control.
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Changsheng has said that because it would face huge fines and confiscation of all illegal income it faced the risk of delisting.
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WhySoSadCZ subsequently posted a series of rolling updates, detailing their call to police, the building's evacuation, and the confiscation of bystanders' phones.
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It said law enforcing agencies should make greater use of seizure and confiscation powers to seizes funds and assets linked to crime.
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At the arraignment hearing in Valletta, Malta&aposs capital, Maltese prosecutors asked a magistrate to order the confiscation of the vessel Lifeline.
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Claimants must be able to prove their ownership of a property six decades ago in another country as well as its confiscation.
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The government has amended the bill to exempt from confiscation "objects with sentimental value," like wedding and engagement rings and family portraits.
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Onaga has said the Futenma problem dates back to the U.S. confiscation of Okinawan land after Japan&aposs World War II defeat.
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The government first confirmed the confiscation on Thursday, when President John Magufuli was receiving audits by parliamentary committees on the mining sector.
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The Los Angeles statue escaped confiscation thanks to the gallery's director, Matt Kennedy, who sheltered it while keeping it on prominent display.
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An actual plan to bring US gun violence down to European levels would involve the large-scale confiscation of millions of guns.
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Clinton is not proposing anything of the kind, and her gun control proposals this cycle hardly entail mass confiscation or constitutional amendments.
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But noncompliance can result in confiscation,(which could, in turn, have severe medical consequences), deportation, jail time, and even the death penalty.
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His comments in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper suggest it would be voluntary, not a mandatory confiscation as O'Rourke is proposing.
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The indignities Palestinians experience aren't entirely overlooked: The very first episode showed the confiscation of a Palestinian car at an Israeli checkpoint.
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On Monday, Southwark Crown Court in London made a confiscation order for 350,000 pounds against Clarke, the FCA said in a statement.
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It's part of a statewide anti-violence program aimed at limiting gun crimes through community outreach and the confiscation of illegal weapons.
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"But the main person responsible for this confiscation is François Fillon, with this obstinacy and failure to respect the word he gave."
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"It is now clear that the U.S. has provided a cover for aggression, occupation and the confiscation of Palestinian land," he continued.
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Since many of these guns were already in circulation, the bill included a mandatory buyback program, which included large-scale gun confiscation.
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At an intuitive level, it's not puzzling that successful citizens like Schwarzman might view mandatory taxation as unjustified confiscation of what's rightfully theirs.
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In Haidong in Western China, a raid of sky lanterns on Sunday resulted in the confiscation of over 2,200 pieces, said People's Daily.
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A one-week suspension and the confiscation of her ID badge is a pretty small price to pay for cursing a sitting president.
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These include allowing the detention and deportation of nationals and confiscation of property from the country with which the U.S. is at war.
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"Continued land confiscation" by the government "is a diplomatic catastrophe," the group said, because it damages the viability of a potential Palestinian state.
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The great thing is to get some money offshore, perhaps to offset dollar debts but also as a hedge against confiscation or worse.
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As part of the investigation, police ordered the confiscation of an eight-million-euro villa in Tuscany, and an archaeological site in Sicily.
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A neighbor who witnessed the first mass confiscation, Glorianna Cabassa, testified that it was "violent" and that the authorities handled the animals roughly.
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In Denmark a bill tightening immigration laws, including the confiscation of refugees' valuables, passed with overwhelming support including the center-left Social Democrats.
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Within 14 days of the emergency order being issued, law enforcement have to make their case in court for a longer-term confiscation.
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By his own admission, young Soros assisted in the confiscation of Jewish property on behalf of a Hungarian regime loyal to the Nazis.
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However, for the farmers of Western frontier, whiskey was a form of currency and its taxation was an unprecedented confiscation of their wealth.
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The big picture: Poll after poll shows rising support for gun control measures, particularly among Democrats, although outright confiscation is far less popular.
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The charges carry a potential penalty of up to 21 years in prison, in addition to fines and the confiscation of their property.
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The details of red flag laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but Colorado's allows law enforcement to seek temporary protection orders or confiscation orders from a judge for a person deemed a danger to themselves or others, with a court hearing required within 14 days of an order being granted to determine whether to extend the confiscation, with a cap of 364 days.
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However, if any income from the non-resident Estonian portfolio becomes subject to confiscation by relevant authorities, it would be deducted from the donation.
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"It's the biggest confiscation of rhino horns in 5 to 10 years," said Somkiat Soontornpitakkool, director of Thailand's Wild Fauna and Flora Protection division.
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At an arraignment hearing on Monday in Valletta, Malta&aposs capital, Maltese prosecutors asked a magistrate to order the confiscation of the aid ship.
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They also described poor detention conditions, confiscation of private property and widespread difficulties in getting access to legal help or information, among other issues.
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The Hong Kong government spokesman noted that any external confiscation order had to be registered in a Hong Kong court and could be challenged.
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"The information he provided helped to foil the plot and resulted in an arrest and the confiscation of explosives" in Denmark, Warren said Wednesday.
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Biden's plan also doesn't include, as Booker and Beto O'Rourke have called for, a mandatory buyback program — essentially, a confiscation scheme — for assault weapons.
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The first one had been triggered by China's confiscation of 1,000 tons of the drug from British smugglers and its refusal to pay compensation.
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ISIS revenues are now some $80 million a month, with half coming from taxation and confiscation, according to a recent analysis by IHS/Janes.
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The Basel organization said this is the first time a Peruvian confiscation order in a corruption case is being executed in a foreign jurisdiction.
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The Laredo project and one in El Centro, California, are on private property, which would require purchase or confiscation, according to the court filing.
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Helmerich & Payne filed a suit in U.S. courts, saying the confiscation breached a contract, hurting the Oklahoma-based parent company and violating international law.
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A confiscation order was made for 99,819 pounds in December against Raj Von Badlo, Hope's co-defendant who received a two year jail sentence.
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A Washington Post report raised questions about Trump's handling of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including the confiscation of his interpreter's notes.
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The Paris court found Obiang, 48, guilty of embezzlement, and ordered the confiscation of more than 100 million euros worth of his French assets.
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Separately, the White House defended its confiscation of Trump's personal medical records from his former physician, Harold Bornstein, in New York early last year.
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The prosecutor's office said it was recommending prison, additional fines and confiscation of amongst other things three properties on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
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The government is also proposing to increase penalties and expand the scope of the confiscation of property related to money-laundering offenses, it said.
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In 1994, assault weapons were banned from being manufactured but the law did not call for the confiscation of those already in private ownership.
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The couple had subjected the women to "oppressive conditions" including verbal abuse, control of their movements and confiscation of their passports, court documents showed.
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The Thunderstorm swoop included the confiscation of 8 tons of pangolin scales, half of which was found by Vietnamese authorities on a ship from Africa.
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The latest seizure in Nogales is the largest-ever confiscation of fentanyl by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, officials said in a statement.
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And, as if that wasn't enough, its buyback program was mandatory — meaning you had to turn in your weapons, which is essentially government-mandated confiscation.
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That, combined with Australia's experience, makes large-scale confiscation look like easily the most promising approach for bringing US gun homicides down to European rates.
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Contrary to the claims of what some gun rights proponents have suggested, this hasn't been the first step in some slippery slope to mass confiscation.
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Initial reports regarding the suspect's arrest referenced the confiscation of a drive containing "malicious malware," though the specific type of malware has not been disclosed.
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In the meantime, the SFO is pursuing confiscation proceedings against Hayes to claw back around 3.8 million pounds ($5.3 million) of alleged proceeds of crime.
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Hedge fund Perry Capital was among those that sought to challenge the lower court's dismissal of lawsuits, arguing the government's confiscation of profits was illegal.
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So much so that Chanel tried to take the business back in 1941, using her Aryan status to petition for confiscation under the Third Reich.
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"If it's (the confiscation) going to continue, the rest of the company will stop," Berzi said, adding foreign investors were "very concerned" about the raid.
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The Arabic-language al-Wasat said the court also ordered the confiscation of 3.367 million dinars found in a bank account in the cleric's name.
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What made it worse was not the forced hardship, but the confiscation of all the books, art works and other culturally related items they possessed.
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When a confiscation order is issued "ex parte" (without the subject person present or even informed), due process is but one of many serious issues.
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This has already claimed at least one life, when officers shot a 61-year-old man to death last year while serving a confiscation order.
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It would also lead to confiscation of all packs of the company's highest-selling drug brands, which would then be given away to government hospitals.
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Sweeping raids across the country now are often followed by television news cameras, even if they result only in confiscation of small arms and swords.
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Dudley Brown, the group's president, referred to the red-flag bill as a "gun confiscation law" and said he didn't care if Mr. Coffman lost.
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At the trial, Captain Bruce C. Muraski, the prison's security supervisor and also the man responsible for the confiscation, attempted to justify the prison's decision.
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Underscoring the problem, the regional governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, ordered the confiscation of ventilators at veterinaries, saying they could be converted to human use.
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"Moreover, it allows this Administration to continue ramping up confiscation of American private property in order to build President Trump's border wall," the group added.
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The largest protest seen in Gaza in years coincided with Palestinian Land Day, which commemorates the confiscation of Palestinian-owned land in Israel in 1976.
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The takeover led to the disarmament and detainment of police officers and the confiscation of "weapons, ballistic vests, cartridges and communication radios," Álvarez Heredia said.
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This commemorates an event in 220 when several Palestinians, who were citizens of Israel, were massacred by Israeli forces when they were protesting land confiscation.
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Drugs found on banana farm One site of the country's largest drug confiscation, according to police, was a banana farm near the mouth of a river.
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Ibori's defense team have applied for Judge Tomlinson to permanently halt court proceedings on the confiscation of Ibori's assets, which have been dragging on for years.
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The newspaper, Zhejiang Daily, also said that the court had ordered the confiscation from Mr. Bao of 600,000 renminbi, or about $92,000, and fined him $15,300.
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This would be almost impossible, given the gun lobby's and many gun owners' current stance and the paranoid fears of confiscation, a fear some liberals feed.
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Helicopter money is a more subtle form of confiscation (on savers, at least) but might have broader appeal (it would seem like "free money" to some).
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"Settlement businesses depend on and benefit from Israel's unlawful confiscation of Palestinian land and other resources, and facilitate the functioning and growth of settlements," HRW said.
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"The hamburger confiscation section of the Five Year Plan never got enough play from Stalin biographers," Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, quipped on Twitter about Gorka's speech.
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The inescapable conclusion from years of evidence looking at the confiscation or relinquishment of so-called "assault-style weapons" is that the strategy doesn't really work.
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He said there's been a decline in the total number of stops in recent years, and that most involved confiscation of weapons, drugs and other contraband.
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The provenance then, as in the earlier Sotheby's sales, was traced to a gallery in London with no mention of Mr. Weinberger or the Nazi confiscation.
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Earlier this week, he noted, the government published a set of regulations tightening control on the self-employed and hiking possible fines to include property confiscation.
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" The National Rifle Association (NRA), chimed in on Twitter, accusing O'Rourke of changing his position on confiscation and saying he would leave "law-abiding Americans defenseless.
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In April 2015, Pardip Saini was sentenced to 528 days for failing to pay a confiscation order for 464,564 pounds after a conviction for insider dealing.
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The Reuters report has sparked a broad SEBI investigation since December, including raids on brokers' homes that resulted in the confiscation of laptops and mobile phones.
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"Calling buyback programs 'confiscation' is doing the NRA's work for them, @PeteButtigieg—and they don't need our help," Booker tweeted, referring to the National Rifle Association.
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Palestinians have complained of frequent Israeli interceptions and arrests of fishermen who have strayed from the zone and of the confiscation of their boats and equipment.
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Facts First: A president could not issue a blanket confiscation of so-called assault weapons, but they could work with Congress to pass such a law.
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During the 2008 campaign, Americans were bombarded by ads that suggested Democrats would pass big restrictions on firearms — possibly leading to the full confiscation of people's firearms.
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"This is not a settlement; it is a confiscation," wrote Circuit Judge Pierre Leval, a member of the three-judge panel that unanimously struck down the settlement.
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Eric Swalwell, Congressman from California, writing an op-ed about gun confiscation, how we&aposll basically send the police to your house if you don&apost comply.
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Beyond their initial attempts to charge him for money laundering, they also sought a huge amount of money when it came to confiscation proceedings after the trial.
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As his soothsayers should have told him, the huge currency confiscation impoverished millions, leading, in 1988, to an uprising against the brutal junta and his eventual ouster.
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Loudest has been the Economic Freedom Fighters, a thuggish opposition party appealing to poor blacks with promises of nationalised banks and the confiscation of white-owned land.
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The latter is a complete political non-starter in my view; it would be perceived as confiscation (your $100 in the bank is being cut to $99).
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They wish to hold on to their extraordinary and largely criminal wealth, including big property holdings in Yangon, the commercial capital, without fear of reprisals or confiscation.
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Myanmar's new government will also have to tackle land rights: confusing and poorly enforced land-use laws impede foreign investment and leave rural farmers vulnerable to confiscation.
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What sets Timbs's case apart is his legal argument: that the Eighth Amendment's ban on excessive fines should shield his property from confiscation at the state level.
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But Riyadh says it is not based there and that the authorities are committed to fighting piracy, including announcing the confiscation of 12,000 pirating devices last June.
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The value of the seized goods, which included Hermes and Louis Vuitton bags, is yet to be ascertained due to the scale of the confiscation, Bernama reported.
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DeSantis accused Gillum of being the "most hostile" candidate toward Second Amendment rights and suggested that he would engage in "confiscation" of firearms if he became governor.
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U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the United State believes that land confiscation without compensation in South Africa would take that country down the wrong path.
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Timbs challenged the seizure in court, arguing that the confiscation of a $42,000 vehicle for a few grams of heroin violated the Constitution's ban on excessive fines.
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Center officials said Matthai, 14, was born at the facility shortly after his mother was placed there as the result of a government-assisted confiscation in 2007.
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Second, congressional redistricting has pulled Republicans so far to the right that anything less than total subservience to the gun lobby is viewed as supporting gun confiscation.
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They invariably denigrate the new bureaucrats as carpetbaggers, using the word "varyagi" in Russian, an old word for Viking outsiders, especially when it comes to land confiscation.
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A study that examined Connecticut's risk protection order found that, from 1999 to 2013, 99 percent of warrants led to the confiscation of at least one gun.
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Intelligent people are seeing the writing on the wall — whether it be Virginia's test case for gun confiscation or threats of another world war on the horizon.
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In fact, the first time the person finds out about the gun confiscation order is typically when police are knocking on the door to take their firearms.
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That's about 2% to 4% of all the estimated guns in the US, but it's unclear how many guns would ultimately fall under an assault weapons confiscation.
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The city insisted that the confiscation last year and subsequent sale of the animal were legal and justified the decision to seize the dog as an asset.
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Those that are caught face fines, confiscation of their goods or detention if they can't show ID proving they have the right to live and work in Spain.
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The threat of confiscation means that any rental attack on the system would require buying a substantial amount of ether, significantly driving up the cost of an attack.
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They see the confiscation of private property as an infringement of liberty just as sincerely as some socialists see it as the road to a wider popular freedom.
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There will also be a review of existing rules on confiscating proceeds of crime in order to improve the process by which confiscation orders are made and applied.
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The US could, for example, follow Australia's lead and ban a much broader category of semiautomatic rifles and institute a mandatory buyback program — basically, a firearm confiscation scheme.
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What makes this such an interesting debate is that Democrats have not coalesced around whether to argue for a "buyback" or "confiscation," and the media are visibly confused.
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"The ongoing police violence and destruction and confiscation of people's belongings is inhumane and unconscionable," Bénédicte Jeannerod, the Director of France's HRW office said in a recent report.
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According to "Eagleton," a town outside Dearborn, Michigan, was raided this week, resulting in the arrests of 11 ISIS members, and the confiscation of dozens of suicide vests.
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The principal point of gun control is not confiscation of guns but keeping them out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and others.
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Other wealthy countries have dealt with this problem, passing an array of gun control measures, from universal background checks to licensing requirements to outright bans and confiscation schemes.
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As the country's farmers tell it, Kirchnerism is just a fancy term for the confiscation of their wealth and the scattering of the spoils to the unproductive masses.
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Thousands patiently waited in line to speak to their legislators, urging them to vote against proposals limiting magazine capacity, firearm confiscation, the banning of sporting rifles and more.
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But fears of mass confiscation are prominent among gun rights advocates, who often see stricter gun laws, especially registration requirements, as just one step toward a bigger crackdown.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Amy Klobuchar keeps having to tell Democratic voters the things they can't have: Medicare for all, free college, mandatory gun confiscation and decriminalizing all border crossings.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Amy Klobuchar keeps having to tell Democratic voters the things they can't have: Medicare for all, free college, mandatory gun confiscation and decriminalizing all border crossings.
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"I regret the confiscation of the democratic debate," Jérôme Guedj, a spokesman for the Socialist presidential candidate Benoît Hamon, said in an interview on BFM TV on Tuesday.
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What started with background checks would surely end with the confiscation of the guns he had been using to hunt deer and rabbits since he was a child.
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Short of forced confiscation or a major cultural shift, our great-great-great-grandchildren will live side-by-side with the guns we have today and make tomorrow.
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Short of forced confiscation or a major cultural shift, our great-great-great-grandchildren will live side-by-side with the guns we have today and make tomorrow.
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In early-November, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey's beleaguered main opposition Republic People's Party (CHP), spoke out against the confiscation of property belonging to businessmen facing terrorism charges.
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The new court cases comes in addition to a continuing criminal investigation, which so far has led to confiscation of assets worth 2.7 billion Danish crowns, mostly in Germany.
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Like Moore, each of them told me stories of false arrests, intimidation, physical violence, doxxing, and illegal confiscation of their phones after filming or sharing videos of police misconduct.
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In McCarthy's case, the TSA's website clearly says that if gel packs and other accessories are "partly frozen or slushy," they are subject to additional screening, not immediate confiscation.
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Jeff Folloder, the executive director of the N.F.A. Trade and Collectors Association, says his members have learned to live with gun registration and lose no sleep worrying about confiscation.
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But Ryan entered politics as a devotee of 20th-century author Ayn Rand, who opposed tax-and-spend benefit programs as immoral confiscation that sapped the power of capitalism.
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Perhaps the best evidence for the idea that confiscation is important is the fact that there is a strong correlation between levels of gun ownership and suicide/homicide rates.
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Their cases, in just one sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, form part of a larger trend of "systemic dispossession" — the methodical confiscation of private property by our government.
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" Johnson referred to mandatory buyback programs as "compensated confiscation" and said that all of the options that have been proposed are "just a further infringement on second amendment rights.
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The museum removed the vase at that point from its place in the Greco-Roman galleries and began a conversation with prosecutors that ended with the confiscation last week.
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Opponents of the proposals have warned that the new measures, particularly the assault weapons ban, would lead to the mass confiscation of firearms and mass incarceration of gun owners.
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Failure to immediately delete listings for these books, the company said, "may result in the deactivation of your selling account" and possible confiscation of any money he was owed.
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The increased rate of confiscation followed a sharp fall in the value of the ruble against the dollar, a troubling development for a regime that wants dollars, not rubles.
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For decades, the National Rifle Association -- and its Republican allies in Congress and now in the White House -- have used the idea of confiscation to win the gun debate.
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A French court found Obiang guilty of embezzlement in October during a trial in absentia and ordered the confiscation of more than 100 million euros worth of his assets.
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The latter corruption, state-sanctioned confiscation of successful businesses, is exemplified by government-led corporate raiding that has grown tragically commonplace in many post-Soviet countries, such as Bulgaria.
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Carolyn MaloneyCarolyn Bosher MaloneyO'Rourke gun confiscation talk alarms Democrats 2017 marked first year firearms killed more people than car accidents: study Report: Americans unprepared for retirement MORE (D-N.Y.).
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A flight attendant, who had clearly seen this transgression before, moved in for the confiscation, since it's against the rules to uncork your own booze on a commercial flight.
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ATF agents, all too eager to rise in the bureaucracy's ranks, wouldn't have even been able to ponder citing bait-and-switch, non-posted regulations to pad their confiscation numbers.
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Let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly — you think part of the reason a gun confiscation program is too far is because there's so little faith in American government.
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And there are many more ideas, from universal background checks (supported by a great majority of Americans) to higher taxes on guns to a gun confiscation program similar to Australia's.
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In its announcement of support, the group explained that it endorsed Cuellar over his support for the right to carry and his opposition to an ammo ban and gun confiscation.
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The Consob sanctions include a 12-month disqualification from taking up a management role with any Italian-listed company and an order confiscation property with a value of 385,000 euros.
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The group is also calling for legislation to "eliminate funding for anti-gun states," such as states that have a gun ban or confiscation program, gun registry, or ammunition ban.
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That was a couple of years after Mr. Collor ordered the confiscation of most of the money people had stored in savings accounts, a failed attempt to control galloping inflation.
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Around 50 percent of the group's revenue comes from taxation and confiscation, 43 percent from oil and the rest from drug smuggling, sale of electricity and donations, the report said.
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These stories touched on alleged issues like voter fraud, gun confiscation, the Benghazi terrorist attack, the unmasking of Trump transition officials in confidential documents, and the murder of Seth Rich.
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Traders said some exporters have stopped prioritizing quality while some farmers - fearing confiscation - are rushing their product to market, cutting short the important quality-enhancing practice of fermenting the beans.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday during a protest against feared Israeli land confiscation, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
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There have been grumblings in Germany about the time and money spent, yielding meager results, a few eyebrows raised over the confiscation of Cornelius Gurlitt's art in the first place.
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My own return to Ramallah via Jordan in 1973 was an ordeal, culminating in a prolonged interrogation, a strip search and the confiscation of my belongings by the Israeli Army.
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Hayes's lawyer was not immediately available for comment ahead of the so-called confiscation proceedings, which the SFO said will take place at the Old Bailey, London's central criminal court.
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It purports to be a notice from the U.N. announcing the creation of a "Civilian Weapons Confiscation Study Group," which would facilitate gun control laws in order to disarm civilians.
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The video, released by the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, includes clips of Obama and Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, offering positive comments about the Australian gun "confiscation" program.
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The workers in 2016 officially complained to Thailand's National Human Rights Commission about forced overtime, being paid less than the minimum wage, confiscation of passports, and limited freedom of movement.
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Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), noted during a CNN town hall on guns that many gun-rights activists believe expanded background checks could eventually lead to a gun registry and confiscation.
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Some gun control experts have said something much more dramatic would be needed to get at the root of the gun violence problem, a gun confiscation program or something like that.
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Among these, nine states passed "red-flag laws," which allow temporary confiscation of guns from people who are deemed a risk to themselves or others, and more are on the way.
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Often, the government solicits bribes and levies "taxes" at checkpoints on roads, in the form of confiscation of product, which push prices up beyond the higher levels caused by product scarcity.
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We watched The Handmaid's Tale last season partly because it depicted such unspeakable situations — the confiscation of liberty, the twisting of the United States into a reflection of our worst nightmare.
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The federal government made potlatches illegal from 1884–1951, and in 1921, a raid during Dan Cranmer's potlatch on Village Island resulted in arrests and the confiscation of priceless ceremonial regalia.
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These protesters argue that large swaths of land under federal control represent an overreach that fuels conspiratorial theories of government control over individual liberties, confiscation of guns and veritable marshal law.
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It is an important line, for by it the Axis reaches South American countries and the United States without running the risk of confiscation or censorship at a British control station.
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Israel moved three bulldozers to the village, Khan al-Ahmar, earlier in the day though demolition had yet to begin, after the military left a land confiscation notice there on Tuesday.
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About 29 percent of the group's revenue comes from taxation and confiscation, 26 percent from oil and the rest from drug smuggling, the sale of electricity, and donations, the report said.
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About 50 percent of the group's revenue comes from taxation and confiscation, 43 percent from oil and the rest from drug smuggling, the sale of electricity, and donations, the report said.
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Perry Capital, which in 2016 announced plans to shut down, was among those that sought to challenge the lower court's dismissal of lawsuits, arguing the government's confiscation of profits was illegal.
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"This cancellation ... presents a squandering of votes and confiscation of the will of voters in these areas which violates constitutional articles that guarantee the right to equality and voting," said Mahmoud.
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" A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service told Broadly: "Confiscation orders are sought to deprive criminals of the benefits of their crimes and to cause maximum disruption to future criminal activity.
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" With foreboding music, it also highlights comments Clinton made at a New Hampshire town hall in October that Australia's firearm confiscation and buyback is "a good example" that is "worth considering.
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The man behind the confiscation of General Motors Co's $100 million assembly plant in April is a much more obscure figure: Kaled Kansao, the owner of two long-defunct GM dealerships.
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What America likely needs, then, is something more like Australia's mandatory buyback program — essentially, a gun confiscation scheme — paired with a serious ban on specific firearms (including, potentially, all semiautomatic weapons).
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As we all concentrate on this, we leave aside other issues that the NRA would rather not talk about — from universal background checks to gun bans to confiscation schemes like Australia's.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian President John Magufuli ordered the confiscation on Friday of passports belonging to foreign employees of an Indian infrastructure company managing a water project that is running late.
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The rhetoric of America's founding documents is lofty and egalitarian, but America as a historical entity was built on slavery, the genocide of its native population, and the confiscation of their land.
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In doing so, they give credence to canards about nefarious federal military exercises in Texas, U.N. takeovers, concentration camps, Barack Obama's "false" citizenship and faith, and the imminent confiscation of all guns.
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But they had to contend with N.R.A. slippery slopesters and their congressional allies who insisted that the Bradys' true goal was arms confiscation, with measures like background checks merely a first step.
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She said "international humanitarian law prohibits the destruction or confiscation of private property by the occupying power", a reference to Israel, which captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war.
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And there are many more ideas, from nationwide universal background checks (supported by a great majority of Americans) to higher taxes on guns to a broader gun confiscation program similar to Australia's.
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The 14-year-old lion was born at the facility shortly after his mother was placed at the center as the result of a government-assisted confiscation in 2007, the center said.
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Depending on the individual institution's rules, punishments can range from confiscation or time in solitary confinement to disciplinary transfers to new criminal charges for the introduction or possession of sexually explicit materials.
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In Yalta, one land confiscation ended in tragedy after the longtime owner of a beachfront cafe discovered that it had been demolished and the cafe contract awarded to a different, anonymous developer.
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Candidates like Senator Cory Booker, who called giving illegal immigrants free health care "common sense," and former Representative Beto O'Rourke, who promises gun confiscation, don't appear to care about attracting these folks.
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Then the confiscation process was stalled for several years while Ibori and several of his associates, who had been convicted for their roles in laundering his money, appealed unsuccessfully against their convictions.
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Farouk described his arrest as part "of a campaign against freedom of expression" and said the confiscation of his book was an act of "security intimidation" which is illegal under Egyptian laws.
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It was a big moment for O'Rourke's campaign, but it underscored long-standing arguments from gun rights proponents that Democratic efforts on gun control are really aimed at the confiscation of firearms.
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The nicest explanation of Venezuelan gun confiscation is that, for a government that would never loosen its deadly stranglehold on the economy, its best alternative was to actively engage in reducing crime.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips will receive $337 million from Ecuador under a settlement of an arbitration case that the U.S. energy company brought over a 2009 confiscation of assets in the South American country.
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"The stories from some refugees show a pattern of planning and pre-meditation," the report said, citing the military's confiscation in advance of knives and other tools that could be used as weapons.
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Though ostensibly a legal right of citizens, filming uniformed police officers has occasionally had disastrous consequences, including, but not limited to, reprimands from law enforcement officers, confiscation of private property, and unlawful arrests.
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Someday, a liberal president could declare national emergencies allowing for a Green New Deal, gun confiscation, Medicare for All, compulsory voting, and other far left policies that would cause conservative heads to explode.
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In fact, the arrests of prominent businessmen and the possible confiscation of their wealth is more likely to spook foreign investors than to make them risk their money in the new Saudi Arabia.
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In a confiscation hearing this year, prosecutors said that the gang members must pay back more than £6 million each based on their "available assets" or face an additional seven years in jail.
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Oil-service companies that go unpaid will curtail their work for the national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, or Pdvsa, and bondholders could demand confiscation of Venezuelan oil payments in the United States.
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Mr. Fitzpatrick said he supported universal background checks and red-flag laws, which allow the temporary confiscation of guns from people who are reported to pose an immediate threat to themselves or others.
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But their principal concern was the destruction of democracy: the confiscation of the major private television broadcaster, Radio Caracas Televisión, and Mr. Chávez's growing personal domination over the government branches and electoral functions.
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"We cannot wait for purity tests," Buttigieg said, specifically explaining why he wasn't signing on to Beto O'Rourke's push for the confiscation of assault weapons but also articulating a general philosophy beyond that.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - Gulnara Karimova, the imprisoned daughter of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, has asked his successor to release her in exchange for facilitating the confiscation of her remaining assets, worth $686 million.
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And even though we know there is a clear link between mental health issues and mass shooters, many on the Left want to go right to gun control and potentially even gun confiscation.
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"Of the 85033 Democrats onstage running for president, three are explicitly supporting gun confiscation by the federal government," Cruz said Wednesday after Senate Republicans discussed gun control proposals at a weekly lunch meeting.
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"Of the 10 Democrats on stage running for president, three are explicitly supporting gun confiscation by the federal government," Cruz said after a meeting with GOP colleagues where gun control measures were discussed.
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"Of course Hillary does not support national mandatory gun buyback programs, including those modeled after Australia's program," said a Clinton campaign spokesman in 2016 when the NRA attacked her for allegedly supporting confiscation.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and used water cannon on a crowd to forcibly enter the country's top-selling newspaper on Friday after a court ordered its confiscation, live web footage showed.
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The court also ordered the confiscation of 10.5 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) in assets from Wu, under whom Anbang discussed doing business with President Donald Trump&aposs son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner.
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His proposal to impose a mandatory confiscation of AR-15 and AK-47 type rifles would most certainly run into trouble in the courts and would likely be struck down in the Supreme Court.
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The wild fluctuations of the price of bitcoin, which regularly sees double-digit intraday price moves, caused a headache for the prosecutors in setting the value of the confiscation, said prosecuting barrister Kevin Barry.
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Search, seizure and confiscation can involve cases with a penalty of two years in prison or more, compared with the threshold of seven years for extraditions under the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, the submission notes.
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Analysts have said Tanzania's planes had been put under the ownership of the TGFA to avoid possible confiscation of the planes from lawsuits related to Air Tanzania's multi-million dollar debts from previous suppliers.
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His antiwar projects exploring the public health impact on germ warfare programs led to his illegal detention in 2004 by the FBI and the confiscation of his work in the name of national security.
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That daily ritual came to an end last week, when lawyers made closing arguments and the prosecutor asked for the confiscation of all his property along with a life sentence for Mr. Habré, 73.
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Still, distributors—many of whom take kratom themselves—remained in business, selling the powdered plant through websites like Coastal Kratom, Heath, Mind & Body Co., and Kratom One, risking the confiscation of their entire livelihoods.
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And the very fact that the right is enshrined in the Constitution ensures that reasonable measures to minimize gun violence don't put us on a slippery slope to ultimate government confiscation of everyone's weapons.
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Court proceedings on the confiscation of Ibori's assets are still dragging through the courts, and lawyers for Ibori and Gohil could use the next court hearing to challenge the findings of the CPS review.
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"Has bitcoin started to replace gold as a repository of value, a place for rich people to hide their money when they get worried about inflation or government confiscation?" the "Mad Money " host wondered.
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All of those interviewed reported some kind of abuse, including squalid or crowded living quarters, salary payments being withheld for months, and measures including passport confiscation that make it difficult to leave the country.
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"In doing so, they are contributing to Israel's confiscation of land, facilitate the transfer of its population into the Occupied Palestinian Territory and are involved in the exploitation of Palestine's natural resources," it said.
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In a public letter over the weekend, the head of the New Mexico Sheriffs' Association, Tony Mace, wrote that red flag laws don't allow gun owners to defend themselves against an initial confiscation order.
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"Many of the New Mexico sheriffs are still going to be concerned with the fact that there's a gun confiscation before there's a hearing," Sierra County sheriff Glenn Hamilton told KRQE earlier this month.
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"Of the 85033 Democrats on stage running for president, three are explicitly supporting gun confiscation by the federal government," Cruz said Wednesday after Senate Republicans discussed gun control proposals at a weekly lunch meeting.
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I have written, by my count, at least 29 articles on gun violence during my time at Vox, most of them arguing strenuously for additional restrictions, including a large-scale confiscation of semiautomatic weapons.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's top appeals court has confirmed the confiscation of some 49 million euros ($54.83 million) from the right-wing ruling League party over a decade-old corruption scandal, keeping it under financial pressure.
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Land confiscation in Myanmar became a major issue under the previous military government, with estimates of as many 2 million acres (800,000 hectares) or more of land seized from farmers and other civilians without compensation.
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For example, after the Waffle House shooting, Tennessee lawmakers drafted legislation to make it illegal to buy or possess a gun if a person had been subject to "suspension, revocation or confiscation" in another state.
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With dozens of dogs occupying the theater's narrow aisles, Cinefamily staff wanted to make sure everything went smoothly, hence the confiscation of dog treats, which presumably would add unnecessary excitement to an already charged atmosphere.
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In the north-west of China, the report noted, Muslims were under constant surveillance, and subject for example to intrusive blood sampling, the confiscation of phones and a ban on sending children to the mosque.
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The confiscation seemed unreasonable to the small-time drug dealer, so Mr Timbs sued, arguing that the Eighth Amendment's bar on "excessive fines" protected him from having so much of his property grabbed by authorities.
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From The Daily Dot:Purchase and requisition paperwork for Geofeedia show Denver police purchased 30 subscriptions to the company's platform using $30,000 in confiscated funds, which was approved by the city's Property Confiscation Board in March.
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Land confiscation and reprisals against protesters are particularly acute in resource-rich Kayin state, which borders wealthier Thailand and is seen as attractive for investment in tourism, mining and agriculture, HRW said in a report.
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"No people will ever be republican in spirit and practice where a few own immense manors and the masses are landless," declared Representative Thaddeus Stevens, the radical congressman from Pennsylvania who sponsored the confiscation plan.
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A full implementation would allow American citizens — including Cuban-Americans who were not American citizens at the time of confiscation — to sue any entity that benefits from confiscated property, including non-Cuban companies and individuals.
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A new video this week from the NRA stokes fears that the Obama administration plans to implement an "Australian-style" gun confiscation that would force law-abiding Americans, including hunters, to turn in their firearms.
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Stop focusing, they told jittery allies, on the sound bites from the White House Cabinet Room earlier this week when Mr. Trump appeared to embrace longstanding conservative taboos like gun confiscation and comprehensive background checks.
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"Virginia has served as a warning to voters all across the country and revealed (Democrats') true agenda of gun bans, gun confiscation and a systematic destruction of our fundamental right to self-defense," she said.
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"Virginia has served as a warning to voters all across the country and revealed (Democrats') true agenda of gun bans, gun confiscation and a systematic destruction of our fundamental right to self-defense," she said.
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Nguyen, whose blog covered issues such as land confiscation, freedom of speech and police brutality, was released a year and a half into a 10-year sentence for "conducting anti-State propaganda" on Wednesday morning.
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" It lists among those measures "the construction and expansion of settlements, transfer of Israeli settlers, confiscation of land, demolition of homes and displacement of Palestinian civilians, in violation of international humanitarian law and relevant resolutions.
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Bundy's father, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, became a hero of Western states' rights advocates in 2014 after his refusal to pay grazing fees he owed the federal government, prompting the court-ordered confiscation of Bundy's cattle.
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The owner of the Mombasa club, Asif Amirali Alibhai Jetha, was charged with three counts of human trafficking, accused of harboring victims for the purpose of deception, using premises to promote trafficking, and confiscation of passports.
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O'Rourke did not say how he would remove firearms from anyone who wouldn't comply with his proposed law despite repeated questions from Camerota, but said he is not suggesting a door-to-door "confiscation" of firearms.
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Yet even if the hoarders will be wary of another confiscation in the future, they will be tempted to make use of the new 2,000-rupee note just as they used the old 1,000-rupee one.
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Quizzed by a parliamentary committee about the SFO's work, David Green said Brexit could affect mechanisms such as European Arrest Warrants, membership of EU police agency Europol, mutual legal assistance and mutual recognition of confiscation orders.
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Parliament approved a law in 2018 banning sleeping in public streets in Hungary, increasing the penalty from a fine to an arrest and confiscation of property for those who refuse a shelter or work programs. 6.
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With ongoing Israeli attempts to legitimize and legalize settlement construction, it is time for the best creative minds among U.S. lawmakers to craft concrete policy initiatives to address the illegality of settlement expansion and land confiscation.
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In many of these schemes, including California's, a confiscation order may be issued against someone completely unaware of any accusations underlying the order, first learning of the petition when the police arrive to seize their firearms.
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The Peru forestry annex was considered a model for a new inspection system that could include confiscation at the border of goods deemed to violate the treaty, and the prosecution of companies that import noncompliant products.
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California has extreme gun control measures such as a 10-day waiting period on gun purchases, universal background checks, gun registration, gun confiscation laws, an "assault weapons" ban, and a "good cause" requirement for concealed carry.
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"We continue to think that Virginia's uranium mining ban is both unlawful and unwise," the company said in a statement, adding that it is reviewing other options to challenge the state's "confiscation" of its mineral holdings.
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"These precarious working conditions, restrictions on their freedom of movement and confiscation of their identity documents by the company may amount to contemporary forms of slavery and to human trafficking," the U.N. experts said in a statement.
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The case was triggered by a complaint that 14 workers filed to Thailand's National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in 2016 about forced overtime, being paid under the minimum wage, confiscation of passports, and limited freedom of movement.
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Four times Mr Modi's government has renewed an ordinance perpetuating the confiscation of "enemy property", in spite of opposition from the Rajya Sabha and even though Indian citizens have won title to such inherited properties in court.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A London judge ordered on Friday the confiscation of bitcoin and other digital currencies worth nearly $1 million from a prolific computer hacker, in the first case of its kind for Britain's biggest police force.
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Ten U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court, saying the searches and prolonged confiscation of their electronic devices violate privacy and free speech protections of the U.S. Constitution.
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"However, the risk of losing your total wealth, some of which may have been amassed lawfully, through what some argue are disproportionately large confiscation orders ... can be the most painful part of the sentencing process," she said.
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As a unit of the existing National Crime Agency (NCA), the center will be tasked with coordinating a national response among the agencies that tackle money laundering and fraud and with increasing the confiscation of crime proceeds.
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ZURICH, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Swiss financial markets supervisor FINMA must reconsider its confiscation of 95 million Swiss francs ($95.27 million) from Banca della Svizzera Italiana (BSI), after a court called its calculation of the amount seized "incomprehensible".
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Magistrate Jose de la Mata has ordered the confiscation of holiday homes, car parks, luxury apartments and rural estates in southern Spain worth 691 million euros ($736 million), the High Court said in a statement on its website.
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Kicked off by a vicious tackle by Nigel Winterburn on Denis Irwin, the ensuing scenes drew the overblown condemnation of the tabloids and the confiscation of two points from George Graham's men and one from Alex Ferguson's side.
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It called for the government to end arbitrary arrest and detention of land activists for peaceful protest, and to set up a multi-agency task force to investigate alleged abuses by border guard forces connected to land confiscation.
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But the MTA's ban is one of the most sweeping, next to the mass confiscation that happened in the UK. The issue is safety, especially when it comes to the lithium-ion batteries used to power most hoverboards.
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Israel's Peace Now movement, which tracks and opposes Israeli settlement in territory captured in a 1843 war, said the reported seizure of 579 acres (234 hectares) represented the largest land confiscation in the West Bank in recent years.
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On Friday Hope was made the subject of a "proceeds of crime" confiscation order to the sum of 166,696 pounds, and must pay this in full within three months or have his jail term extended by 20 months.
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Israel's Peace Now movement, which tracks and opposes Israeli settlement in territory captured in the 1967 war, said the reported seizure of 579 acres (234 hectares) represented the largest land confiscation in the West Bank in recent years.
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In another example of how wealthy European states are seeking to deter migrants, Denmark's parliament on Tuesday passed measures allowing the confiscation of asylum seekers' valuables to pay for their stay, despite protests from international human rights organisations.
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Mr. Khochinsky, on the other hand, has raised the specter of anti-Semitism in the Polish government's pursuit of him, and in its refusal to negotiate compensation for what he describes as the confiscation of his mother's home.
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The group's agenda is predictable: It will lobby for universal background checks and an extreme risk protection law, which would allow the temporary confiscation of guns from people believed to pose an imminent threat to themselves or others.
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Officials from the New York City Department of Transportation insisted in emails this month that all bicycles with any sort of electrical assistance are illegal, which would make them subject to confiscation and fines of up to $500.
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That said, it should be realized that the political viability of this endeavor would be highly questionable in a context in which our national rights remain unrecognized and settlement activity, military raids, land confiscation and home demolitions continue.
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The Bangkok court case was triggered by a complaint that 14 workers filed to Thailand's National Human Rights Commission in 2016 about forced overtime, being paid under the minimum wage, confiscation of passports, and limited freedom of movement.
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Only Congress can impose permanent reform on an agency the central goal of which is the explicit or implicit confiscation of others' property, and the only route to that end is a requirement that Congress approve all regulations.
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Rome's Court of Cassation decreed late on Tuesday that the case against former League leader Umberto Bossi and its former party treasurer had expired due to the statute of limitations, but the confiscation of the funds remained in place.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, a British former trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for manipulating Libor interest rates, lost an appeal on Wednesday against a confiscation order that forced his wife to sell their seven-bedroom country house.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Oktay Ince, a Turkish filmmaker and longtime video activist, chained himself to a pole outside the culture ministry in Ankara to protest the confiscation of his archive, worth 20 years of his work.
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But he conveniently leaves out, for example, that Australia instituted new regulations on who could buy guns, government buy-backs of guns and a prohibitions on rapid-fire rifles and shotguns -- in short, what amounted to gun confiscation programs.
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On Saturday, several hundred protesters took to the streets in Sidi Bouzid, a central town where the 2011 uprising erupted after a young man set himself on fire following the confiscation of his fruit cart by policemen demanding bribes.
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The confiscation of a consignment of its diamonds in Tanzania and a labor strike at its South African mines were the main reasons that Petra flagged in October that it was likely to fall short of its loan obligations.
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But after a mass shooting in his hometown, O'Rourke has made mandatory buybacks (aka confiscation) of modern sporting rifles (the semiautomatic rifles like AR-15s that are often referred to as assault weapons) a key feature of his campaign.
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LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, a British former trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for manipulating Libor interest rates, lost an appeal on Wednesday against a confiscation order that forced his wife to sell their seven-bedroom country house.
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Long after Mr O'Rourke has dropped out of the race, he says, the main pro-gun lobbyist, the National Rifle Association (NRA), will continue to elide Mr O'Rourke's confiscation plan with the more moderate gun-control proposals of other Democratic candidates.
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In 1976, Abnaa' al Balad (Sons of The Land)—a political party that as a matter of its politics refuses to recognize Israel—declared Land Day to protest the confiscation of their land to build yet another Jewish settlement, within Israel.
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It has no property rights or rule of law, no legal private trade and a currency prone to confiscation: in 2009 the government wiped out small traders' savings by declaring old banknotes invalid and swapping only a few for new ones.
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Sixty-eight percent — or 27 million — are exploited in the private economy by individuals or enterprises and forced to work involuntarily as traffickers employ debt bondage, document confiscation, physical abuse and other tactics to keep them hostage, the ILO reports.
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Only Cory Booker, who brought up his gun licensing plan, and Eric Swalwell, who pointed to his assault weapons confiscation program, broke new ground on the issue — receiving little support from others on stage (although some candidates have backed licensing elsewhere).
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The court also ordered the maximum fine of 1 million dirhams ($270,000), three years' probation after his sentence is completed, the confiscation of all his communication devices "used in the crimes" and the closure of his social-media accounts and websites.
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He acquiesced to Lenin's confiscation of his art because he felt the new Soviet state would protect it during unpredictable times, as Russia neared civil war; his daughter Ekaterina Keller was appointed the State Museum of New Western Art's first curator.
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Americans who do not want their lives driven by fear should not worry that a repeal movement plays into the hands of gun lobby which says the Second Amendment protects us from the confiscation of guns and preserves our freedoms.
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Under Brazil's 1988 Constitution, which guarantees the rights of indigenous people to their ancestral lands, and a presidential decree in 1996, any building on land where the boundaries have already been drawn by the Funai faces confiscation with no compensation.
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I just think this should be done with good laws and broad public support, in such a way as to make it inevitable and ultimately painless for everyone (after all, these men would still be multimillionaires after the great confiscation).
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After years of a failed push to enact federal universal background checks for new gun purchases, Mr. Booker and Mr. Swalwell are on the leading edge of a push to go well beyond — into licensing and potential confiscation of firearms.
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" Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, on Twitter: "Historical Palestine disappears day after day to the beat of confiscation decisions, from Jerusalem to the Jordan Valley ... And all of this is happening a hundred years after Sykes-Picot and the Balfour promise.
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Nevertheless, Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is taking Trump's lead and moving forward on a bill to fund existing laws at the state level that would allow some confiscation of guns from people identified by local law enforcement as dangerous.
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The N.R.A. and other gun-rights groups have long used the idea of a gun registry to motivate voters, arguing that universal background checks would lead to a database of gun owners, and that a database would lead to gun confiscation.
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So when firearm issues make the news — such as after a shooting, when the imagined threat of gun confiscation makes the rounds on conspiracy-minded social media sites – these voters double-down to ensure their candidates succeed in the next election.
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Its collaboration with Chinese law enforcement in 2015 resulted in the arrest of 300 people, the destruction of 7003 places where counterfeits are made and the confiscation of $125 million worth of products, President Michael Evans told the group in May.
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They booed him again when he defended his vote for a bill that would have rolled back a rule, from the Obama administration, allowing for the confiscation of guns from people not competent enough to manage their Social Security benefits.
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Evidence has shown, for instance, a Facebook group that peddled theories about the Jade Helm military exercise, firearm confiscation, Sharia Law, and Black Lives Matter, all to promote the secession of Texas, was actually the result of Russian intelligence activities.
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Under Brazil's 1988 Constitution, which guarantees the rights of indigenous people to their ancestral lands, and a presidential decree in 1996, any building on land where the boundaries have already been drawn by the Funai faces confiscation with no compensation.
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The FCA said Hope had breached a 2012 restraint order and a 2016 confiscation order that should have prevented him from dealing with assets or operating a bank account without permission, and required him to be honest about his finances.
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Martin HeinrichMartin Trevor HeinrichWatchdog: Energy Department not doing enough to protect grid against cyber attacks The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by National Association of Manufacturers - Trump defends Ukraine motives while attacking Biden O'Rourke gun confiscation talk alarms Democrats MORE (D-N.M.).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes that land confiscation without compensation in South Africa would take that country down the wrong path, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Thursday after President Donald Trump raised the issue in a tweet.
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"News of their detention and confiscation of their equipment by Maduro's henchmen are the latest reminder that press freedom in Venezuela applies only to those who are willing to spread the regime's lies," tweeted Kimberly Breier, assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere.
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I hope the rest of the six-episode series continues in this vein, because watching TV heroes embrace conspiracy theories isn't much fun when presidential candidates foster gun-confiscation paranoia and a 9/11 truther is campaigning for Donald Trump in Iowa.
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The London-listed miner started talks with its banks earlier this year after the confiscation of a consignment of its diamonds by Tanzania and a labor strike at its South African mines put it at risk of falling short of its loan obligations.
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The new rules call for more stringent accounting practices at religious institutions, threaten "those who provide the conditions for illegal religious activities" with fines and confiscation of property, and require the many privately run seminaries in China to submit to state control.
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The social network's size and the facility of access means that reckless confiscation of personal data does not occur on the village green or in a newspaper with limited circulation, but rather on personal devices inches from the eyes and ears of millions.
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Daniel Jones, 63, was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2016, and on Tuesday he was given another six years and 287 days after failing to pay 6.6 million pounds, comprising his part of a joint confiscation order and his other assets.
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Also known as "Extreme Risk Protection Orders" (ERPOs), these laws allow for the confiscation of firearms without due process; this is unconstitutional and goes against the very fabric of our Republic, eroding both due process and a person's natural right to self-defense.
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When a man walked into a cafe in Port Arthur, Australia, and shot and killed 254 people in 2130, the tragedy engulfed that country — leading it to pass a comprehensive set of gun restrictions that led to the confiscation of 210,000 firearms.
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And a federal judge has authorized Crystallex, a defunct Canadian mining company, to seize shares of PDV Holding, the other holding company that formally owns Citgo, as payment for a $1.4 billion arbitration award for a government confiscation of a mine in Venezuela.
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"Palestinian residents of Jerusalem endure systematic inequalities, including an inequitable distribution of the city's budget and municipal services, routine denial of building permits that are granted to Jewish residents, home demolitions, and legal confiscation of property for Jewish settlement," the petition argues.
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Those measures include limiting handgun purchases to one each month, requiring background checks for all firearms sales and transfers, and imposing a "red flag" law, which allows the confiscation of guns from people deemed by courts to be dangerous to themselves or others.
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Henry Cuellar (D), a Texas Blue Dog who took the lead on a House-passed bill strengthening the background check system, acknowledged the difficulties in confronting some voters who want to paint all gun reforms, no matter how narrow, as akin to confiscation.
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Album 9 Photos View Slide Show ' To ride a dirt bike in New York City is to face the irritation of neighbors, confiscation by the police and — not to put too fine a point on it — a severe shortage of ridable dirt.
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Mr. Anastasiades, in public statements at the time, expressed alarm that the confiscation of deposits, carried out at the behest of the European Union in return for aid, would hand the bank to the Russians by issuing shares as compensation for seized money.
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Many on the right believe the new contours of the debate have finally exposed the left's true intentions — the confiscation and destruction of all guns, an idea that was an applause line at a CNN town hall debate about guns on Wednesday night.
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"The profiling and unlawful intelligence gathering in diaspora put not only Gulen people but all other critics, opponents and dissidents at risk of imprisonment if they are to return to Turkey, confiscation of their assets, jailing of their relatives with guilt by association," Bozkurt alleged.
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And the Clinton knee-jerk response of supporting Australian-style gun confiscation laws aimed at denying law-abiding Americans who live in those neighborhoods the right to defend their homes is a sure loser everywhere except in the gated, protected communities where she hangs out.
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That, plus the power of the National Rifle Association and the pervasive belief within gun rights circles that any gun restriction is a slippery slope to confiscation, virtually ensures that nothing major will change at the federal level in the wake of future school shootings.
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"Obviously, the lefties immediately see an opportunity to yell about gun control and somehow think people will believe that gun confiscation will end all this violence," said Paul Chevalier, a retired officer in the Marines who is active in Republican politics in New Hampshire.
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With an alarming number of elected officials unable to see that the answer to the problem is more freedom, not less, we should never forget that the worst forms of genocide have always started with the erosion of due process and the confiscation of firearms.
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While bureaucrats demand citizens push aside their Second Amendment rights, turn in their firearms and walk away, their idea is to pay out fees for guns the government never owned —with the hard earned money belonging to the same people they are forcing into confiscation.
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"Last night's debate was a reminder that while you may not always agree with everything Trump says or does, the leading alternatives to Trump mock people with traditional beliefs & support socialism, gun confiscation & free government funded health care for unlawful immigrants," he wrote on Twitter.
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While a mandatory buyback campaign of weapons like the AR-15 and AK-47 doesn't amount to a wholesale gun confiscation, it walks much closer to that doomsday scenario the NRA has spent years painting as just over the horizon if Democrats get into power.
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The confiscation resembles one in Indiana in 2018, when the Lafayette Courier-Journal reported that police patrolling an interstate highway seized an orange tablet in the shape of the 45th U.S. president's head, with his lips puckered on the front and "Great Again" printed on the back.
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The shorter stories, set largely in America and Britain, range from the bordered confines of a London garden to the cloying luxury of an overseas paradisiacal resort, from the confiscation of a tube of ChapStick at an American airport to a haunted semi-detached house in London.
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Instead of Democrats' fight for far-fetched policy planks like gun confiscation, why not focus on universal background checks, ending the sale of assault rifles, and offering states and localities more resources to tackle the spread of illegal guns on their streets and in their communities?
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court has ordered the confiscation of 123 million euros ($135 million) in assets from a Dutch-based company that prosecutors alleged was used by two telecoms companies to bribe Gulnara Karimova, the elder daughter of Uzbekistan's president, to secure local operating licenses.
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Among the documents reproduced in the report were records of detained teenagers; orders to dilute populations of minority Kurds through property confiscation, population transfer and other measures; and an order to ban a French-Lebanese journalist whose writing was considered "offensive" and to surveil her phone.
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His view is shared by the Lindon heirs, who are pursuing the return of the painting after its provenance and Nazi confiscation were established by Mondex, which specializes in tracking down looted artworks and matching them with heirs in return for a portion of the work's value.
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Even in that 60 Minutes interview that is pasted across the internet as conclusive evidence of Soros's Nazi ties, Soros says that he was "only a spectator" to the confiscation of property (though he does say initially that he did help but seems confused by the question).
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Men run and cover their faces as Turkish anti-riot police officers use tear gas to disperse supporters in front of the headquarters of the Turkish daily newspaper Zaman in Istanbul on March 5, 2016 The confiscation of Zaman media group highlights some critical developments in Turkey.
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He said his highest-paid workers now lose half or more of their monthly salary through confiscation, while the leader of each construction squad of around 20 to 30 laborers takes an additional cut of about 20 percent in return for finding painting jobs for his men.
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" Buttigieg and O'Rourke have increasingly feuded over guns in the runup to the debate and finally clashed after the former Texas congressman was unable to say how he'd enforce a mandatory buyback of assault rifles, a proposal the mayor has called an unworkable act of "confiscation.
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Although (classically) liberal democracies have developed methods to constrain government powers through constitutional systems of rights, checks and balances, and other means, few if any have successfully placed legal limits on taxation levels and, therefore, only require a plurality to authorize any level of confiscation on production.
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But, when we testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, we heard not only from the gun lobby, but from United States Senators that expanding background checks will, not may, will lead to a registry, which will lead to confiscation, which will lead to a tyrannical government.
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The lack of choice in currencies— a choice that Nobel economist F. A. Hayek argued is essential to prevent the abuse of power and to combat inflation — deprives individuals of the means to protect themselves from the type of wealth confiscation now taking place in India and Venezuela.
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They need to focus on the abundance of guns in the US and develop a suite of policies that directly tackle that issue, from licensing to confiscation to more aggressive bans of certain kinds of firearms (including, perhaps, all semiautomatic weapons or at least some types of handguns).
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At the Vilnius Forum in 2000 (a follow-up to the Washington Principles conference), Mr. Eizenstat criticized Hungary for refusing to carry out the principles, noting that the government in Hungary during World War II had "sanctioned the confiscation of artworks and cultural property" from its Jewish citizens.
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At a recent meeting with shrimp farm owners, he said he heard many shrimp farmers defending the confiscation of passports "to prevent them from getting their passports wet"; bans on workers leaving farms to stop theft; and long working hours to ensure shrimp are fed at the right times.
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A recent study found that sex workers across 33 countries who face repressive policing -- identified as arrest, imprisonment, confiscation of needles, syringes, condoms, displacement to new area or physical or sexual violence by officers -- have three times higher chance of experiencing physical or sexual violence than the general population.
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The monetary value of the discs was so small and the counterfeiting piece so minor (fake labels for duplicates of discs that Dell doesn't even provide any more) that if anything it would be a fine and confiscation of the shipment, not a 5-year case alleging millions in damages.
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While his forces carried out widespread human rights violations and he embezzled billions of dollars from the nation's coffers, the Zairean national team were being lavished with gifts, favours and general largesse, with the added incentive of knowing that failure on the pitch could mean confiscation of property, imprisonment or death.
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An inside investigation by PETA's Alex Pacheco, posing as an unpaid lab volunteer, led to the nation's first arrest and criminal conviction of an animal experimenter for cruelty to animals, a confiscation of the animals from the lab, and the first U.S. Supreme Court victory for animals used in scientific experiments.
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The two judges also ruled that Takilant should pay a fine of 1.58 million euros and ordered the confiscation of its 6 percent stake in Ucell, the Uzbek subsidiary of Telia AB. Earlier this month prosecutors said they had targeted Takilant, not Karimova personally, because she was outside the court's jurisdiction.
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WASHINGTON — Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin, sued the United States government on Friday, demanding it lift sanctions that he claimed have cost him billions of dollars, made him "radioactive" in international business circles and exposed him to criminal investigation and asset confiscation in Russia.
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In Khan al-Ahmar, Mr. Abu Khamis says that the Israeli proposal has a fatal flaw: The Palestinian owners of record in Jahalin West — who do not recognize Israel's confiscation of their property — have threatened to sue, in Palestinian court, to prevent the Khan al-Ahmar Bedouins from moving in.
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It's a blunt but effective rhetorical confiscation, in which a battle-ready right relishes its ability to seize, inhabit and neutralize the arguments and vocabularies of its opponents, reveling in their continued inability to formulate any sort of answer to the trusty old ''I know you are, but what am I?
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzGOP signals unease with Barr's gun plan NRA says Trump administration memo a 'non-starter' Barr fails to persuade Cruz on expanded background checks MORE (R-Texas) suggested the proposal could provide an opening for firearm confiscation and instead touted a proposal by himself and Sen.
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Consequently, to really tackle the "gun problem" in America — meaning the problem by which a large number of people die each year who would live if the country were less awash in firearms — would require a level of gun regulation and gun confiscation that is, to say the least, politically unrealistic.
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Than Shin's story is just one example of what the ruling party of Aung San Suu Kyi says was the systematic confiscation of land from farmers by the army and the placing of that land in the hands of crony companies close to the military junta that ruled Myanmar for half a century.
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Prosecutors said they have asked a court to order the confiscation of 7.5 billion reais ($2.13 billion) in cash and goods from those linked to the laundering ring, half of that to pay to the government the amount of money illegally moved over the past two decades and half to pay fines.
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Along mostly party-line votes, the state's House of Delegates approved seven measures, including limiting handgun purchases to one each month, requiring background checks for all firearms sales and transfers, and imposing a "red flag" law, which allows the confiscation of guns from people deemed by courts to be dangerous to themselves or others.
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The Israel Defense Forces guarding the border fence said in a statement that they were forced to take measures to disperse the crowd when the protesters began hurling stones and rolling burning tires toward the fence as thousands marched in recognition of Palestinian Land Day, which remembers the confiscation of Palestinian-owned land in 1976.
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Back in 2014 Politifact debunked a myth posted on a conservative website (and seized on by gun enthusiasts) that the White House had hatched a plan to require health care providers to "submit medical data to the government" which would then be "used as justification for gun confiscation by the federal government," in violation of HIPAA .
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The far-left dynamic has created an unholy doctrine to which Democrats must swear fealty, if they have any hope of being successful or being in leadership of the party: open borders, amnesty for all, abortion on demand, government-run energy sectors, a massive welfare state, single-payer health insurance, gender fluidity and gun confiscation, among other issues.
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"When push comes to shove, he is a supporter of a social democratic Scandinavian-style welfare state in the form of better education, healthcare and social service provisions for the general population rather than the confiscation of companies from the private sector," wrote Larry Liu in a prescient post in 2015 about the re-emergence of red-baiting.
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Once they came on board, officials said, victims were then forced to sign agreements promising to obey various rules, including no communication with anyone outside the church, confiscation of identification documents like licenses and passports, no talking about the outside world and a promise to give 473 percent of any income they were receiving to the church.
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A seizure order a decade ago was unable to withstand a constitutional challenge after a Mongols member, Ramon Rivera, who was not indicted on any criminal charges, filed a complaint with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union and successfully argued that the confiscation of Mongols items violated his First Amendment and due process rights.
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"This bill turns law-abiding citizens into criminals and it's one more step toward federalized gun registration and ultimately gun confiscation," said Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the Republican whip, who was shot in the hip and gravely wounded in 2017 when a gunman fired on members of the Republican congressional baseball team practicing in Virginia.
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In a statement to CNN, NRA spokesperson Jennifer Baker said, in part, "The study did not find a statistically valid relationship between the gun 'reforms' and the homicide rate and concludes that the impact of the gun 'reforms' cannot be estimated because suicides and homicides from all causes began decreasing before the gun ban and confiscation program was in place."
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The CPSC, US Customs and Border Protection, US Department of Transportation, and the Federal Aviation Administration are sharing information and insights to keep everyone safe, including the confiscation of counterfeit hoverboards and products that use the Underwriters Laboratories UL mark, since while individual components like batteries or power supplies might be UL certified, there is no overall UL certification for hoverboards.
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I could tell you some things about my own career as a an experimental creative writer, about what a relentless diet of JG Ballard can do to the brain of a 20-year-old white male and about how a story about pilots boning during a plane crash might lead to the mass confiscation of a student literary journal by right-wing activists.
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Consider just how much the National Rifle Association has changed the conversation about guns in just a few decades: After the NRA went through an internal revolt in the late 1970s, the group began to push against all restrictions on firearms — under the logic that giving even a little on this issue could eventually lead to a sweeping confiscation of everyone's guns.
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One far-right site falsely claimed in December that individuals attending Monday's Lobby Day will have their guns confiscated at roadblocks across the state, that Virginia has "been chosen as the deliberate flashpoint to ignite the civil war that's being engineered by globalists," and that all of this will end with the United Nations occupation of America and nationwide gun confiscation.
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Consider the specifics of the US: If the key problem is that America has too many guns, then it needs to do something to reduce the number of guns in circulation quickly — something akin to Australia's response to a mass shooting in the late 1990s, when the country passed sweeping restrictions on firearms and enacted what was effectively a gun confiscation program for certain types of weapons.
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