SYRACUSE, N.Y.  — 

A white supremacist manifesto that appeared to be a copy of one linked to a man accused of attacking two mosques in New Zealand was circulated electronically at Syracuse University, campus law enforcement said Tuesday, adding to a string of racist episodes that have shaken the upstate New York campus.

Federal investigators and local authorities were working to determine the origin of the document after receiving reports that it was posted in an online forum and that attempts were made to send it to the cellphones of students at a campus library Monday night via AirDrop, a file-sharing service that allows iPhone users to send pictures or files to other iPhones or iPads near them when devices are within Bluetooth and Wi-Fi range of each other.

Officials said the manifesto appeared to be copied from one written by the man accused of killing 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand in March.

“We don’t know the author. We don’t know what the intent of it was. It’s a very disturbing document if you read it,” Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner said at a news conference with campus and state police and the FBI.

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Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado said, based on a preliminary investigation, that there appeared to be no direct threat.

“We know that this is an unsettled time and our community is anxious,” he said, adding that students and the campus were safe.

He said officers would increase patrols and their presence on campus.

Authorities have fielded about 10 reports of racist vandalism, graffiti and shouted slurs targeting Jews, Asians and black students at the private university since Nov. 7.

Students have staged a sit-in at the student wellness center since Nov. 13 with a list of demands that includes the expulsion of students for hate crimes and stronger diversity training for students and staff. The university’s international students also have listed concerns.

Chancellor Kent Syverud on Tuesday said the university would commit more than $1 million toward responses identified as priorities, including student safety, clarifying the code of conduct, making curriculum changes and hiring staff.

“As we undertake this important work, we face real challenges here and we operate in a fraught national climate,” he said in a statement.

Syverud on Sunday suspended one fraternity along with social events for the others after a black student complained she was verbally harassed as she walked past a group of people identified as fraternity members and their guests the night before.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday called on the university’s board of trustees to hire an independent monitor to investigate the racism.

“Despite his efforts, I do not believe Chancellor Syverud has handled this matter in a way that instills confidence,” Cuomo said.

The Board of Trustees responded with a statement supporting Syverud and praising his response to the student concerns.

“This is a deeply painful and unsettling time for our students and our whole Orange community. We have been attacked — from inside our home and from the outside world,” Board of Trustees Chairwoman Kathy Walters said. “While it’s easy to spread words of hatred, Chancellor Syverud has been relentlessly focused on the safety of our community, and the well-being of our students, driving action and effecting real change on our campus.”

BERLIN — 

The son of former German President Richard von Weizsaecker was stabbed to death while he was giving a lecture at a hospital in Berlin where he worked as a head physician, police said Wednesday.

A 57-year-old man is in custody after a man jumped up from the audience at the Schlosspark-Klinik and attacked Fritz von Weizsaecker with a knife on Tuesday evening. Another man who tried to stop the attack was seriously wounded.

“We cannot yet say anything about the attacker’s motive,” said police spokesman Michael Gassen, adding that the suspect is still being questioned.

Von Weizsaecker died at the scene despite immediate attention from colleagues.

The 59-year-old was the son of one of Germany’s most esteemed presidents, who was the country’s head of state — a largely ceremonial post — from 1984 to 1994. The former president died in 2015.

Fritz von Weizaecker was one of the ex-president’s four children. His sister Beatrice von Weizsaecker posted a picture of Jesus on the cross on Instagram after the murder of her brother.

Von Weizsaecker studied and worked at several hospitals in Germany and abroad, including the Harvard Medical School in Boston and a hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. His fields of expertise were internal medicine and gastroenterology.

On Tuesday night, he was giving a lecture about fatty liver disease, an increasingly common medical condition. The lecture was open to everybody and local media reported that several colleagues were among the audience as well.

The killing of Von Weizsaecker echoes a similar incident from 2016, when a man fatally shot a doctor at Berlin’s Benjamin Franklin Hospital before killing himself.

The Von Weizsaeckers are one of Germany’s most prominent families. Richard von Weizsacker was not only one of the most popular but also one of the country’s most respected presidents.

In 1985, then-West German President Von Weizsaecker called the Nazi defeat Germany’s “day of liberation” in a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the war’s end. His words were supported by most Germans, and to this day the speech is often cited by politicians and taught in schools.

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VALLETTA, Malta — 

Malta authorities on Wednesday arrested a prominent Maltese businessman who appears to be a “person of interest” in the assassination of a leading investigative reporter.

Yorgen Fenech was on a yacht intercepted on a northward course away from Malta by the Maltese military early Wednesday and forced back to port.

In remarks to reporters, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat did not directly tie the arrest to the murder of 53-year-old Daphne Caruana Galizia in a powerful car bomb in October 2017. But he did say that it appeared to result from comments he made a day earlier about the possibility of a pardon for an alleged middleman who had offered to identify the mastermind of the killing.

Muscat said he instructed police to be on the lookout for unusual actions by “people of interest” in the long-unsolved murder after announcing Tuesday that a pardon would be possible for the middleman if information he provided could stand up in court.

“If I had not given these instructions, maybe today we might be speaking of persons of interest who might have escaped,’’ Muscat told reporters.

He declined to comment further out of concern that any comments might prejudice a case.

No details of charges against Fenech have been revealed, but authorities would have 48 hours to decide on them.

Fenech is a prominent hotelier and director of the Maltese power company. His name was on leaked documents as a source of income for companies named in the Panama papers.

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What Will Sondland Say?

When Gordon Sondland enters the ornate House hearing room for televised testimony this morning, Republicans and Democrats will be looking for a make-or-break moment in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump — even as serious questions surround Sondland’s credibility.

The hotelier-turned-U.S. ambassador to the European Union has emerged as a pivotal link between the president and a shadow foreign policy led by Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was urging the Ukrainians to conduct investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son as military aid to Ukraine was being held up.

Sondland’s appearance follows more than 11 hours of firsthand testimony from White House aides who provided damaging new details about Trump’s efforts. Republicans largely responded by trying to discredit the witnesses rather than dispute their accounts.

Meanwhile, more than $35 million of the roughly $400 million in aid to Ukraine that Trump delayed has not been released to the country, according to a Pentagon spending document obtained by The Times. It’s not clear why the money hasn’t been released, and members of Congress are demanding answers.

More Politics

— The House has passed a short-term spending bill that would keep federal agencies running for a month in hopes that the additional time will help negotiators wrap up more than $1.4 trillion in unfinished appropriations bills. Next stop: the Senate. The deadline for Trump to sign it: midnight Thursday.

— The latest Democratic primary debate will get underway in Atlanta at 6 p.m. Pacific time. Here’s what to look out for.

Cracking Down on Fracking

In a victory for critics of California’s oil drilling industry, Gov. Gavin Newsom has blocked new approvals for hydraulic fracturing, pending a permit review by an independent panel of scientists, and also for steam-injected oil drilling, the method linked to a massive petroleum spill in Kern County this year.

But in L.A., environmentalists were less pleased as they urged Mayor Eric Garcetti not to build an $865-million gas-fired power plant in Utah, saying the plan conflicts with his own climate agenda. That facility would replace Intermountain Power Plant, L.A.’s largest source of power and the last coal plant serving Californians.

Who’s in Charge Here?

“I could give you a hundred reasons homelessness has become L.A. County’s most vexing challenge, from the gargantuan income gap to housing costs to the scourge of drugs and mental illness, but the biggest impediment to solving it may be this: Nobody is in charge.” That’s how columnist Steve Lopez begins his latest piece on the homelessness crisis. But he says there is a glimmer of hope.

Netflix’s Go-It-Alone Strategy

Hollywood’s big unions and studios are getting ready to rumble, as film and TV contracts are set to expire next year. Netflix, on the other hand, is looking to hash out its own labor deals. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming giant can do so because, unlike major competitors, it doesn’t belong to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. That means writers, actors and directors could continue to work on Netflix shows even if they staged a walkout with alliance members.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

On this date in 1975, if you were to head from the freeway into the Central California town of Coalinga, what you’d pass wouldn’t be an ordinary oil field. It would be a playful cartoon take on one — the Iron Zoo, locals called it — courtesy of Jean Dakessian, who transformed 46 pumping units into the likes of a cowboy on horseback, a pair of Peanuts friends and a derby-wearing turtle (he was the slowest pump, naturally). As the artist told The Times: “It’s a dull 12-mile drive from Interstate 5 through the oil fields to Coalinga. I dressed up the desolation.” See more of her creations.

CALIFORNIA

— A federal judge in San Diego has ruled that the Trump administration was misapplying its so-called asylum ban to migrants who’d already been waiting in line when it took effect in July. The decision could give tens of thousands the chance to have their claims heard.

— Costa Mesa‘s outgoing police chief says he’s being forced out after he raised issues about the latest budget development process and what he considers the City Council’s “interference.”

— More than two years after the Las Vegas mass shooting, a Mira Loma woman who was paralyzed in the attack on a country music festival has died, authorities said, raising the death toll of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history to 59.

— The actions of a Santa Clara County prosecutor are under scrutiny after authorities say he used his 13-year-old daughter as bait to catch a man accused of molesting her.

— Saugus High School students returned to campus Tuesday for the first time since a gunman last week killed two classmates and injured three others. They were allowed to retrieve their things, but classes are canceled until Dec. 2.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

— The Grammy nominations are coming out this morning. Our complete coverage is here.

— Horror movies are finally winning some respect. But what about Oscars?

— It took 25 years before Hollywood was ready for a movie about Harriet Tubman. “Harriet” screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard explains how it happened.

— Sterling K. Brown talks identity, success, fatherhood and how he told his mom he was ditching economics for acting.

— Everybody wants a piece of the Great White Way. But now that some of its top tickets belong to rock stars and the line between Broadway and Off-Broadway is blurring, what exactly is Broadway?

NATION-WORLD

— Doctors are pressuring U.S. Customs and Border Protection to let them give flu shots to detained migrant children after several died of the virus in custody over the last year.

— Troll armies, a growth industry in the Philippines, may soon be coming to U.S. elections.

— Sweden has dropped its rape investigation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, now in prison in Britain. The prosecutor said his accuser was credible but the passage of time had weakened the evidence.

— Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself have been charged with falsifying prison records.

— On its way to claiming the YouTube throne, a maker of knockoff Bollywood tapes first bucked entrenched rivals, legal challenges, disgruntled artists, murderous gangsters and private tragedy.

BUSINESS

— The just-finalized merger of the big newspaper chains Gannett and GateHouse Media sends a grim signal about the future of local news, columnist Michael Hiltzik writes.

— Workers at an electric bus company in L.A. have unionized, with the support of their Silicon Valley CEO. It’s a far cry from Tesla.

— Why are Californians with health coverage being hit with surprise fees padding their premiums? Because, columnist David Lazarus explains, the state’s insurance industry lobbied to ensure it can stick patients with at least some of their financial obligations.

— A year after his shocking arrest on fraud charges, Carlos Ghosn — the former head of the partnership between Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi — is out to prove it’s all a conspiracy.

SPORTS

— If the NFL wants to expand beyond U.S. borders, it should look at Mexico before Europe, because the league is already there in spirit, columnist Dylan Hernandez writes.

— The three main horse racing organizations have announced the formation of the Thoroughbred Safety Coalition, in hopes of regaining public confidence in the sport after numerous horse deaths. But it won’t change much in California.

OPINION

— Even though Brett Kavanaugh made it onto the Supreme Court, it’s important that truth tellers like Christine Blasey Ford, who says he assaulted her as a teen, not disappear from view, columnist Robin Abcarian writes.

— The San Onofre nuclear plant may be closed, but it’s still a Chernobyl waiting to happen, MIT professor Kate Brown writes.

— Author David L. Ulin once thought Angelyne represented everything he disliked about L.A. Now he considers her a true Los Angeles original.

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

— Scared children, most of them with disabilities, are being locked in isolation rooms across Illinois, and often it’s against the law. (Chicago Tribune/ProPublica)

— There are 114,000 homeless kids in New York City public schools. This is a day in the life of two of them. (New York Times)

ONLY IN L.A.

For more than two decades, the Soviet submarine that would become known as the Scorpion was based out of Vladivostok during the height of the Cold War. Eventually, it would end up in Long Beach, docked next to the Queen Mary, as a tourist attraction — sitting there for nearly as long as it plied the Pacific. But in 2015, it closed after falling into such disrepair that it became infested with raccoons. Soon, it’s expected to be sold. Its buyer and destination? Unknown.

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New Sauber driver Charles Leclerc was kicking himself after making a ‘stupid’ mistake on the final day of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

The 20-year-old Monegasque rookie hit the wall in turn 11 early on Friday morning, causing damage to the C37. It meant he lost half a day’s track time in the car.

“It hasn’t been a very good day for me,” Leclerc said. “I have made an error that has cost me quite a lot.

“I was pushing. I think the pace was very good on the lap I was doing. But obviously I did not finish it. Completely my fault.

“Obviously I touched the wall. So it was not like a normal spin, but I touched the wall a little bit.

“I will learn from it,” he said. “We lost a bit of time on track because of me and this is something that should not have happened.

“It’s a bit stupid from my side to do it so early in the day, but it happens.

“I am a little bit angry with myself,” he admitted. “I’ve had some good information from this, I’ve learnt a lot and there is still a lot to learn.”

• Ericsson looking to Leclerc to boost his reputation

Leclerc also had a couple of other spins during the eight days of testing, but none that did any lasting damage to the car.

“The two other are nothing special,” he said. “I spun and everything is still quite new for me.

“I tried to push the limit, which is normal in testing,” he continued. “I will obviously be a lot more disappointed with myself if this happens in the race in Melbourne!”

The next time that Leclerc will climb into the car and head out on track will be in Australia in two weeks time. The reigning Formula 2 champion insists he’s fully prepared for what’s to come.

“I feel ready, definitely,” he said. “These two tests have taught me a lot.

“Obviously Formula 1 is still pretty new to me,” he continued. “On the performance side I think we are there. I think I’ve improved a lot in this test. I feel ready for Melbourne.

“I obviously had never done any race runs before two days ago,” he added. “I did my second one today – actually not even a full one because of my crash this morning. But I’ve learned a lot on the race runs.”

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McLaren has revealed that a bolt costing just £2 was responsible for the heat damage sustained by the MCL33 on Tuesday.

Stoffel Vandoorne had enjoyed a productive morning on day two of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. He topped the time sheets early on with a swift lap on hypersoft tyres.

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However, when he brought the car back to pit lane, some heat damage was detected on the bodywork

“Unfortunately we had this small issue with the exhaust clip,” Vandoorne explained on the day. It had led to hot air blowing on the internal wiring looms – including those responsible for braking. The issue meant the team lost almost all of the afternoon running time.

“It’s a stupid bolt that broke in the exhaust,” McLaren sporting director Eric Boullier revealed on Thursday. “It was a £2 problem which cost us a lot of track time.

“Everything was burned after in the back of the car, so we had to rebuild the gearbox and the back end.”

But Boullier was relieved that the cause hadn’t been anything more serious requiring major revisions ot the car design.

“It didn’t cost us much to revise the design, it’s more about the track time we lost,” he noted. “As you can see the design is still the same and the car is still running.”

• Burning issue limits Vandoorne’s Tuesday run

The team had already suffered problems on the opening day of the test when a faulty wheel net dumped Fernando Alonso in the gravel.

And on Thursday, a hole in the car’s heat shield resulted in more delays. Fortunately the heat damage on this occasion was purely cosmetic and little time was lost.

“Cooling is the first matter that every team is managing in the first week of testing,” Boullier explained.

“We have to make sure there are some proper heat shields in place,” he continued. “Consider all the heat soak pockets, [and] make sure we can modify and change the cooling inside the bodywork.”

Once the problem was taken care of, McLaren turned its final day focus onto aero data gathering.

“We obviously adjusted our programme, we have compressed it,” he said, acknowledging that the loss of track time on Wednesday had been a set-back for the team.

“It’s a learning process actually, so we’ll try to learn as much as we can now.”

Next week the team will turn its attention to distance runs, with the first race of 2018 now only a little over three weeks away.

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The “Fourth World”, as defined by Anthony J. Hall in The American Empire And The Fourth World, is a sustainable model of globalization that respects cultural, economic, and environmental pluralism, as it embraces globalized democracy, and the rights of self –determination. It represents trajectories towards Life and the rule of law, but needs to be allied with an effective apparatus of enforcement.

The current corporate globalization that is imposing itself on the world contradicts these Life forces. It imposes itself internationally through illegal wars of aggression, fascistic governance at home and abroad, extremism, abrogation of rights and freedoms, denial of self-determination, war, poverty, and death.

An increasingly monolithic and globalized supranational governance is imposing itself through corporate sovereignty deals (inaccurately labelled “trade deals”), supranational dispute tribunals, transnational financial institutions, financial services bundled with predatory Structural Adjustment Programs, and totalitarian, anti-democratic trajectories.

This Orwellian world, that is achieving its ascendancy through stealth, cloaks itself in the language of human rights — free trade agreements, humanitarian interventions — as it denies freedom and humanitarianism, domestically and internationally.

International Financial Institutions enable monopoly monocultures that displace indigenous peoples, and embed asymmetrical economies, when they should be enabling Life forces of biodiversity, and sustainable living.

International laws and agreements are seen as obstacles to overcome, as corporate sovereignty deals drive foreign policies that create and enable compliant proxy dictators who open countries to foreign investment, and mega everything : from mineral extraction, to agribusiness, to tourism.

Predatory business models – often advanced through wars of aggression, are ”free” of proper regulations, and against the will of informed populations, — all for the perceived benefit of international investors, who are further protected by Investor-State Dispute mechanisms embedded in corporate sovereignty agreements.

A recent case in Canada highlights the supremacy of corporations over elected polities:

Janet M Eaton, PhD explains in report entitled,” Digby Neck Quarry Bilcon Case, Tribunal Decision and Dissent” that a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Investor-State Tribunal overturned the decision made by a Canadian Federal Provincial Environmental Joint Review Panel (JRP).

The corporate supremacy over elected polities, as described in her report, underscores the danger of a host of additional corporate sovereignty agreements currently being negotiated behind closed doors:

Trans- Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).