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Former state department official charged with sexual assault against 10 yo girl in Prince William County, Virginia


Inside Nova
Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00 UTC
John Scott Moretti
John Scott Moretti
The former special agent in charge of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's protective detail is jailed without bond on charges of sexually assaulting a girl in Prince William County between 2011 and 2013.

John Scott Moretti, 58, was arrested Tuesday after special victims detectives concluded an investigation into the sexual assault of a girl between the ages of 10 and 11 at a home in the Manassas area between November 2011 and November 2013, said Prince William County police spokeswoman Renee Carr.

The victim knows Moretti and reported the incidents to police in September 2019. Moretti is charged with indecent liberties and forcible sodomy, Carr said.
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Stormtrooper

Montenegro police arrest Serbian Orthodox Church bishop and 7 priests for holding mass 'in violation of Covid-19 lockdown'

Kirill Borschev
Fort Russ News
Wed, 13 May 2020 19:58 UTC
orthodox priests arrested montenegro
Bishop Ioanniky of Budimlyansko-Niksic
Bishop Ioanniky of Budimlyansko-Niksic and seven other priests of the Serbian Orthodox Church were detained yesterday by Montenegrin police for holding a liturgy on the feast of St. Basil of Ostrog, according to the Evening News. Recall that in view of the coronavirus epidemic, a ban on mass gatherings is in force in the country.

Late last night, after a festive service in honor of St. Basil of Ostrog, revered in the Balkans, the Montenegrin police broke into the Parish House, where they presented Vladyka Ioannikiy and seven other priests with summonses to give explanatory testimonies at the Main State Prosecutor's Office.

At the time of the arrest, the Metropolitan of Montenegro-Primorsky Amfilohiy was also present in the Parish House, but he was not on the list of those who were ordered to be brought to the prosecutor's office for conversation.
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EU to issue a transport and tourism strategy coordinating and protecting summer vacations and refunds

Jorge Valero, Sam Morgan
EURACTIV
Mon, 11 May 2020 03:52 UTC
beach chairs
© EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTANA view of an empty and closed beach in Tel Aviv, Israel, 26 March 2020.
The European Commission will adopt a comprehensive strategy on Wednesday (13 May) - already seen by EURACTIV - which aims to make sure governments reopen for tourism business in a coordinated manner. The EU executive will also wade into the divisive voucher vs refund debate.

Coronavirus lockdowns have closed borders, shuttered services and dealt a stunning blow to the EU's tourism sector. As the outbreak begins to show signs of subsiding, the question of how to go back to business as usual is on the agenda.


Comment: Does someone have to regulate this too? Wouldn't owners of businesses have this pretty much nailed?


The Commission's strategy, which is still subject to change and will be discussed by senior officials later today, will recommend a three-phase approach to reopening borders that brings together member states "with similar overall risk profiles".

Europe's disease control agency (ECDC) will be drafted in to keep a list of areas with low circulation of the virus, so that "blanket quarantine measures" within Schengen can start to be scrapped.

Comment: If humans weren't hyper-regulated until now, we shall surely be by 'vacation' time. Currently, a walk outside is the vacation many have been 'made afraid' to take.

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Yellow Vest

'They will not silence us': Michigan activists undeterred after Facebook removes anti-lockdown group with 380,000 members


RT
Wed, 13 May 2020 17:54 UTC
Lockdown protesters in Lansing, MI
© Reuters/Seth HeraldProtesters against the stay-at-home order demonstrate in Lansing, Michigan, April 15, 2020.
Facebook has shuttered a popular group for Michiganders who oppose their governor's extreme lockdown measures, fueling debate about free speech during the coronavirus crisis.

'Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine' had more than 380,000 members, with media reports describing it as one of the largest anti-lockdown groups in the nation. It's not clear if Facebook has provided an explanation for the group's removal. Visiting the page gives the following message: "Sorry, this content isn't available right now."

Garrett Soldano of Mattawan, Michigan created Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine in April after becoming disenchanted with Governor Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order - a policy which he initially supported. The group made headlines around the world after organizing 'Operation Gridlock', a protest in which thousands of cars created bumper-to-bumper traffic in the capital, Lansing.
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Coronavirus scourge: 6-year-old Texas boy found tied in shed; beaten, sprayed with hose


CBS News - Dallas/Ft. Worth
Tue, 12 May 2020 16:26 UTC
Esmerelda Lira and Jose Balderas
© Dallas County Jail
CBS News obtained the arrest affidavit Tuesday for the two people accused of abusing a 6-year-old boy who was found with his hands tied behind his back inside a shed in Dallas.

Police found the child behind the home on Coston Drive around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday night. The boy told officers the alleged abuse started since he "got out of school for this corona thing."

The child's grandmother Esmerelda Lira, 53, and her boyfriend, Jose Balderas, 66, were arrested.

The child told child abuse detectives during a forensic interview that whenever his grandmother left the home, she put him in the shed, tied him up and told him he was bad. He also said Lira bathed him outside by spraying him with water.

He had been tied up and locked in the shed around 10:30 p.m. the night of the arrests.
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Israeli forces destroy home of Palestinian prisoner Qassam al-Barghouti

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00 UTC
demolished home
© Issa RimawiPalistinians in Kobar check out what remains of Qassam al-Barghouti's home.
Israeli forces raided the northern West Bank village of Kobar before dawn on Monday and destroyed the family home of Palestinian prisoner Qassam al-Barghouti, sparking widespread clashes in the village between armed Israeli soldiers and local youth.

Al-Barghouti is accused of being involved in an attack last August that killed Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb and injured her father and brother while they were hiking near the illegal Dolev settlement in the West Bank, northwest of Jerusalem.

According to local media reports, dozens of Israeli forces raided the village in the early hours of Monday and cordoned off the area around Barghouti's home before bulldozing the house to the ground. Forces also reportedly fired tear gas and other crowd dispersal measures on local youth who had gathered to attempt to stop the demolition by throwing stones and burning tires near the scene. Videos posted on social media show local youth hurling Molotov cocktails at the military convoy as they were leaving the village after completing the demolition.

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that four Palestinians were injured during the clashes, including one person in moderate condition who was hit by a tear gas grenade.
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Syria: Village residents block road thwarting US convoy attempt to use local highway


Sputnik
Tue, 12 May 2020 18:20 UTC
US convoy
© ZUMAPRESS.com
The incident comes amid the ongoing standoff between US troops, Syrian Army units, local residents and Kurdish militia in northeast Syria, home to the majority of Damascus's oil and gas reserves.

Residents of two villages in the province of Hasakah, Syria set up roadblocks outside their communities, successfully preventing the passage of a US military convoy on Tuesday morning, SANA has reported.

The news agency obtained what is said to be video footage of the incident, showing villagers from the communities of Dashisha and Cahira standing in front of a group of US armoured vehicles, one of them fitted with an American flag, facing away from the group of civilians.

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Chechen leader Kadyrov banned from Instagram again, loses account with 1.4 million followers

Jonny Tickle
RT
Wed, 13 May 2020 18:40 UTC
Ramzan Kadyrov
© Sputnik / Said TsarnaevFILE PHOTO
For many in the 21st century, losing social media access would be a devastating blow. However, for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, it's just another day. For the third time in three years, Kadyrov has been banned from Instagram.

According to Instagram's owners, Facebook, the ban was in relation to US sanctions against the Chechen leader.

Since 2017, Kadyrov has been sanctioned by the United States under the terms of the Magnitsky Act. Signed by President Barack Obama in 2012, and later expanded in 2016, the Magnitsky Act enables the US government to sanction foreign government officials implicated in alleged human rights abuses.

"As an American company, we act within the framework of US sanctions legislation and are constantly taking measures to fulfill our legal obligations," a Facebook spokesman told news agency RIA.

The same fate also befell the account of Chechen parliament head Magomed Daudov, as well as regional Deputy Prime Minister Abuzayed Vismuradov and State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov.

Comment: For more on the Magnitsky Act see:

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Dollar

US kills Telegram cryptocurrency to maintain dollar dominance as Durov concedes defeat in 'battle of generation'


RT
Wed, 13 May 2020 18:23 UTC
Telegram, U.S. SEC
© Reuters / Dado Ruvic; Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
Telegram has been forced to abandon its cryptocurrency initiative, with its founder Pavel Durov blasting the US for seeking to crush any attempt at decentralization in order to maintain its global financial dominance.

Telegram founder and St. Petersburg native Pavel Durov announced the move in a post to his own Telegram channel on Tuesday, stating the crypto project - the Telegram Open Network (TON) and its currency, known as "Grams" - would have to be shut down.

"Unfortunately, a US court stopped TON from happening," Durov said, adding that the court ruled "people should not be allowed to buy or sell Grams like they can buy or sell Bitcoins."
Perhaps even more paradoxically, the US court declared that Grams couldn't be distributed not only in the United States, but globally. Why? Because, it said, a US citizen might find some way of accessing the TON platform after it launched.

Comment: Can't have anything threatening the dollar's global hegemony.

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TV

CNN lies about 68% of Americans waiting for Covid-19 vaccine to return to normal life as lockdown gives MSM new lease on life

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 13 May 2020 17:05 UTC
CNN fake news
Mainstream media is running wild during the US coronavirus lockdown with the kind of distorted "facts" that would normally be ignored but have developed staying power due to pandemic-induced vulnerabilities in its audience.

More than two-thirds of Americans are determined to hide out in their homes until a Covid-19 vaccine comes along. Or so CNN appeared to claim in a Tuesday headline, declaring "68 percent of Americans say a vaccine is needed before returning to normal life." Citing a Gallup poll, the piece implied that until a vaccine is rolled out for the pandemic that has upended the lives of people around the world, most Americans are content to shelter in place, working from home (if they're lucky enough to be working at all) and absorbing reality through the mainstream media.

The actual Gallup poll the article cited said no such thing. "Availability of a vaccine to prevent Covid-19" was merely one item on a list of factors that respondents could rate as "very," "somewhat," or "not too important" as conditions for returning to their pre-pandemic routines. Indeed, a poll taken the previous week that specifically asked how many respondents would only return to normal if there was a vaccine found just 12 percent of respondents felt they needed the still-hypothetical jab to resume their lives.
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