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White farmer's brutal murder sends protesters & counter-protesters to rally outside courthouse in South Africa


RT
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:20 UTC
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© Reuters / Siphiwe Sibeko
Tensions ran high as two groups of protesters squared off after a young white farmer was killed in South Africa. The case has reignited the decades-old conflict surrounding land ownership in the country.

Local farmers and their supporters rallied outside a courthouse in the town of Senekal, demanding justice for farm manager Brendin Horner, 21, who was brutally murdered earlier this month. Some wore T-shirts saying "Stop farm murders, enough is enough," to highlight what they see as a string of violence against white farmers in the country.


Comment: And on that last point:
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"I'm here because of white people... taking advantage of us," EFF supporter Khaya Langile, who came from the Johannesburg township of Soweto.

Tensions have been heightened by a government plan to expropriate white-owned land without compensation as part of an effort to redress economic inequalities that remain stark a quarter of a century after the end of apartheid.

Roughly 70% of privately-owned farmland in South Africa is owned by whites, who make up less than 9% of the country's population of 58 million. (Editing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo and Gareth Jones)


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Twitter changes its hacked materials policy in wake of New York Post controversy

Natasha Lomas
Tech Crunch
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:23 UTC
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Twitter has announced an update to its hacked materials policy — saying it will no longer remove hacked content unless it's directly shared by hackers or those "acting in concert with them".

Instead of blocking such content/links from being shared on its service it says it will label tweets to "provide context".

Wider Twitter rules against posting private information, synthetic and manipulated media and non-consensual nudity all still apply — so it could still, for example, remove links to hacked material if the content being linked to violates other policies. But just tweeting a link to hacked materials isn't an automatic takedown anymore.

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Court overturns order to shut Berlin bars and restaurants from 11pm


The Local
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:07 UTC
closed bar in Berlin-Friedrichshain
© DPAPeople walk past a closed bar in Berlin-Friedrichshain on Wednesday evening.
A Berlin court on Friday suspended an order for bars and restaurants to close from 11 pm to 6 am, finding that "it was not apparent" such a measure could help fight coronavirus.

Ruling on a case brought by 11 restaurant owners, the administrative court noted that new infections in Germany currently stem from private gatherings of family and friends, at community facilities, meat-processing plants, religious gatherings or in connection with travel.

Closing food and drink establishments was therefore a "disproportionate encroachment on the freedom" of the industry, the court ruled.

City authorities had ordered the sector to close early from last weekend, as infection numbers surge in the German capital.

Comment: In addition to the courts in Germany, ever greater numbers of German people are responding to the ridiculous and egregious lockdowns and speaking out about them:

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Ex-Mexico army chief arrested in LA on drug, money-laundering charges

E. Eduardo Castillo and Stefanie Dazio
Associated Press
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:56 UTC
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© AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, FileIn this April 16, 2016 file photo, Mexico's Defense Secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda salutes soldiers at the Number 1 military camp in Mexico City.
Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country's army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources said Thursday.

Two people with knowledge of the arrest said Cienfuegos was taken into custody on a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warrant. One of the people said the warrant was for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.

The DEA declined to comment Thursday night.
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'Not a body double': Navy SEAL rebuts Trump over QAnon theory on Osama bin Laden death

Evan Craighead
Sputnik
Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:23 UTC
osama bin laden
© AP Photo / Mazhar Ali KhanOsama bin Laden in 1998 file photo from his hideout in Afghanistan.
The retired US Navy SEAL credited with the assassination of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden is speaking out after US President Donald Trump amplified a baseless conspiracy theory suggesting that former US President Barack Obama's administration actually staged a fake operation, complete with a bin Laden body double.

"Very brave men said goodby to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the order by President Obama. It was not a body double," Robert O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who allegedly killed bin Laden in a 2011 raid, tweeted on Tuesday. "Thank you Mr. President. Happy birthday @USNavy."

"S**t. I just found out that I killed Osama bin Johnson. Drinks are on me, I guess..." he added in a tweet later that day.

Comment: There have been various stories over the last two decades regarding exactly when OBL died. QAnon aside, who says Trump isn't onto something?

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11 hacks, leaks, and hoaxes Twitter and Facebook didn't throttle, in hopes of damaging Trump

Joy Pullmann
The Federalist
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:14 UTC
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Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter
Twitter's technicality is a fig leaf to enable continued control of public discourse by an unelected private industry that is 9-to-1 in the tank for Democrats and can decide what Americans are allowed to know.

On Wednesday, Twitter and Facebook banned their users from sharing a link to an explosive report from the New York Post containing emails indicating Hunter Biden had lucratively monetized his father's vice presidency through international business dealings. A massive public relations disaster ensued, including fierce reactions from senators and members of Congress with tech oversight.

In response, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed Twitter had banned the link because it included private information obtained through hacking.
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Steve Scully earns indefinite suspension from C-SPAN for tweet hack lie


Washington Times
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:54 UTC
Steve Scully
© AP Photo/Ron Edmonds/FileC-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely after he admitted to lying about having his Twitter account hacked.
In a statement, Mr. Scully said he falsely claimed his Twitter account was hacked after he was criticized about a questionable exchange with Anthony Scaramucci, a former aide to President Trump who has turned into a Trump foe.

Mr. Scully said both the tweet and hacking claims were "errors in judgment."

"These actions let down a lot of people, including my colleagues at C-SPAN, where I have worked for the past 30 years, professional colleagues in the media, and the team at the Commission on Presidential Debates," he said. "I ask for their forgiveness as I try to move forward in a moment of reflection and disappointment in myself."

In its own statement, C-SPAN said Mr. Scully came clean about the false claim Wednesday.

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Greta mocks US Supreme Court nominee, eco-activists claim judge should be disqualified for position on climate


RT
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 01:02 UTC
Greta
© Reuters / Lucas JacksonGreta Thunberg is shown in 2019, scolding world leaders for inaction on climate change in a speech at the United Nations in New York.
Child enviro-prodigy Greta Thunberg is ripping US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett for declining to give her opinions about the cause of climate change, likening the judge's restraint to lacking a view on gravity.

"To be fair, I don't have any views on climate change, either," Thunberg said on Thursday on Twitter, mocking Barrett's answers in her Senate confirmation hearing. "Just like I don't have any views on gravity, the fact that the earth is round, photosynthesis nor evolution. But understanding and knowing their existence really makes life in the 21st century so much easier."

The Swedish teenager's snarky attack came after Barrett dodged questions from Democrats this week regarding her views on climate change. For instance, Barrett told Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) that she didn't think her views on climate would be "relevant to the job I would do as a judge," and that she hadn't studied scientific data enough to offer an "informed opinion."

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'This war must end': Foreign doctors express 'shock' over severity of war wounds in Nagorno-Karabakh


RT
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:26 UTC
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© RTome of the medics working in Stepanakert: Shahen Danielyan (upper left), Atom Ter-Grigoryan (upper right), Norayr Zakharyan (lower left) and Jean-Michel Ekherian (lower right).
Medics from as far away as France who came to help as fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh, have told RT they weren't fully prepared for the atrocities and have called for the fighting to stop.

Intense clashes between ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces over Nagorno-Karabakh have been raging since late September. The mainly Armenian-populated region, which is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, declared independence from Baku in 1991 and has since been backed by Armenia, which has stopped short of officially recognizing it. Azeri authorities consider Nagorno-Karabakh illegally occupied by Yerevan, proclaiming that they want to get their territory back. Baku is being backed by Turkey in this latest flare-up, and reports have claimed that Syrian mercenary fighters have been airlifted to fight against Armenians.

The warring parties are unwilling to share information about their losses, but numerous people are reportedly being killed and maimed on both sides every day. In Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh's main city, foreign medics mainly of Armenian origin, are working almost 24/7 to tend to the wounded.

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More than half of all Americans "plan to stockpile food and other essentials" for the chaotic months ahead

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
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There was a time when preppers were relentlessly mocked, but nobody is laughing now. Today, most Americans are thinking about stockpiling food, and this massive shift in our national mindset has been sparked by concern about what is going to happen in the months ahead. Many Americans believe that another wave of the coronavirus pandemic is coming, others believe that our ongoing economic depression will get even deeper, and yet others are convinced that the upcoming election could produce widespread violence. Of course there have always been people that have been deeply alarmed about future events, but we have never seen anything quite like this. In fact, a brand new survey has found that over half of all Americans are currently planning "to stockpile food and other essentials"...
Slightly more than half of Americans in a recent poll from Sports and Leisure Research Group say they already have or plan to stockpile food and other essentials. The chief reason: fears of a resurgent pandemic, which could lead to disruptions such as new restrictions on businesses. On Oct. 2, the number of COVID-19 cases in the USA was its highest in almost two months.



Comment: Considering the numbers of false positives in testing, incentivized hospitals, and the politicization of the disease - the uptick in Covid cases would seem hard to verify!

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