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Star of David

Israel admits ISIS fighter in Iraqi prison is its own, permits his return

The National
Source
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:05 UTC
Mohammed Khalid
ISIS prisoner Mohammed Khalid
Israel has acknowledged the existence of an Arab Israeli ISIS fighter who has languished in solitary confinement at a northern Iraqi prison without trial for more than two years, according to a letter obtained by The National. It says he would be allowed to return home if he can reach Israel's borders from Iraq, despite a lack of formal ties between the two countries.

When US forces captured Mohammed Khalid in a December 2017 raid in eastern Syria following four years spent fighting for ISIS across the group's self-proclaimed state, Israel kept the case of the Palestinian from Israel's Arab-majority Northern Triangle area, and his whereabouts, in the dark.

But after The National interviewed him at an Iraqi Kurdish counter-terrorism facility and tracked down his family in northern Israel, the Israeli government finally acknowledged his existence in the state's first comments on his case, one fraught with legal implications and that counter-terror experts said was the first they had witnessed of a state refusing to even recognise a foreign fighter as its own - let alone allow his repatriation.

All evidence pointed to Israeli knowledge about his case despite its denials. Before Khalid's capture, the family say they were questioned about him on numerous occasions at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport. Since then, their repeated attempts to obtain information about him from the Israeli government since October 2018 have been ignored. Khalid himself said Israeli security agents approached him at least twice before he fled to Syria.


Comment: It wouldn't be surprising if the Israelis let him go. If their doctors will stitch up Syrian rebels in order to get them back in the action of fighting "evil Assad", why not let a loser like Khalid go to Syria to fight for Israeli interests? It's win-win, as far as the Machiavellian Israelis are concerned.

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Black Magic

Insanity: Gov. Newsom bill allows male inmates who identify as 'women' to be housed in women's prisons in California

Libby Emmons
The Post Millennial
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 18:01 UTC
newsome california transgender prisoners
California now allows for men to "opt-in" to women's prisons, removed protections protecting minors from sexual predators, and has opened the door to funding medical transition for minors.
California's Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Saturday to end sex-segregated prisons in that state, to allow inmates to be housed based on the gender with which they identify as opposed to dividing them by sex.

The caveat of the bill is that this privilege is only for those inmates with which the penal system does not have "management or security concerns."

This collection of bills, designed with the aim of "strengthening protections for LGBTQ+ Californians," does little for women or children, as it opens female prisons to male-bodied persons, and enables tax payer funds to go toward the medical transitioning of minors. There is also funding to find the impact of COVID-19, which is an illness that primarily affects the elderly and those with existing health complications, on the LGBT+ community.
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Star of David

Israelis vent anger outside Netanyahu's home after bid to curb lockdown protests


DW
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:31 UTC
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© Mostafa Alkharouf/AA/picture-allianceLockdown protesters gather outside Netanyahu's residence
Many citizens believe the prime minister is using a recent spike in coronavirus cases to stymie their wish to protest. Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to declare a state of emergency to bring an end to the unrest.

Thousands of Israelis vented their frustrations outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, demanding his resignation, while maintaining the pressure on the embattled leader after weeks of protests, despite a recently installed lockdown.

With Israel facing one of the world's worst outbreaks of COVID-19, a strict lockdown came into effect Friday, shutting down several businesses, banning large gatherings and ordering people to stay close to home.
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Light Saber

Attorney: Kenosha officer shot Jacob Blake because he was kidnapping a child in attempt to escape

Scott Glover
CNN
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:45 UTC
Rusten Sheskey jacob blake
© Kenosha Police DepartmentPolice Officer Rusten Sheskey
Police Officer Rusten Sheskey has told investigators that it wasn't just his life he was defending when he fired his weapon seven times at Jacob Blake last month in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He said he used deadly force during the chaotic encounter because he was afraid Blake, while attempting to flee the scene, was trying to kidnap a child in the backseat of the vehicle.

"He's got my kid. He's got my keys," Sheskey heard a woman say, according to attorney Brendan Matthews, who is representing the officer. If Sheskey had allowed Blake to drive away and something happened to the child "the question would have been 'why didn't you do something?'" Matthews said.

That explanation, provided in an exclusive interview with CNN, offers the most detailed rationale to date for Sheskey's highly scrutinized decision to shoot Blake, who is Black, as he leaned into an SUV with his children inside it on August 23. Cellphone video of the shooting went viral on the internet, sparking days of protests and rioting in the lakeside city of Kenosha. The shooting, which Blake's family has said resulted in paralysis from his waist down, was widely condemned as yet another unjustified shooting of a Black person by police.

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Fire

Torch a library for Breonna: Protesters in Louisville smash windows & throw flares after defying curfew


RT
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:38 UTC
blm protester Louisville
© REUTERS/Carlos BarriaProtesters march in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. September 24, 2020.
Scores of protesters took to the streets of Louisville, ignoring the nighttime curfew a day after two police officers were shot amid unrest sparked by the charges in the Breonna Taylor case. A library was damaged in the mayhem.

Dozens of protesters hit the streets of Louisville on Thursday evening, paying little attention to the city's 9pm curfew and squaring off with police.

Shortly before the curfew set in, police declared an "unlawful assembly," saying that protesters were smashing windows on 4th Street.

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Brick Wall

Best of the Web: Health lockdown or student incarceration? Glasgow Uni feels like a prison

Harry Butcher
spiked
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:18 UTC
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© Getty
Police patrol our halls of residence. We've been banned from pubs. Even Christmas could be cancelled.

I'll confess, I think I almost enjoyed lockdown at first: I could cycle to work without the roar of cars all around me, and I enjoyed the novelty of being able to walk down a near-empty high street. The hard reality of our government's decision to shut down society hit home soon enough, though. I lost a planned seasonal job that was due to start at the beginning of May, and so was forced to spend an additional three months in a job I disliked, working even longer hours due to greater demand. As much as I love my family, you can grow sick of the same faces after a while. Not being able to see friends certainly had an effect on my mental health - and the incessant screeching of the fear-mongering media could leave anyone in a nervous fit. In an unfathomable irony, during the 'peak pandemic', university was my glimmer of hope on the horizon.

I'm at Glasgow University, which has been the subject of considerable controversy this week. I'll spare myself a lawsuit by not revealing every detail, but if you take a group of young people, most of whom won't have been away from home before for longer than a school trip, it takes only a few brain cells to realise that they're going to find creative ways of having fun - restrictions or not.

Comment: Glasgow University is not unique. This appears to be becoming policy at universities all over the UK. What more effective way to destroy an entire generation, all in the name of keeping everyone "safe"?

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Map

26 dead after Ukraine military plane crashes and bursts into flames


Stars and Stripes
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:55 UTC
ukraine plane crash
© EMERGENCY SITUATION MINISTRYIn this TV grab released by Ukraine's Emergency Situation Ministry, an AN-26 military plane bursts into flames after it crashed in the town of Chuguyiv close to Kharkiv, Ukraine, late Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. Among 28 people on board 22 people were killed.
Searchers combing the area where a Ukrainian military aircraft crashed found two more bodies on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 26. One person survived.

The plane, a twin-turboprop Antonov-26 belonging to the Ukrainian air force, was carrying a crew of seven and 20 cadets of a military aviation school when it crashed and burst into flames Friday night while coming in for landing at the airport in Chuhuiv, about 250 miles east of the capital Kyiv.

Two people initially survived the crash, but one later died in a hospital. No cause for the crash has been determined.

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Yellow Vest

Large protest against lockdown in London meanwhile polls of British public show many want HARSHER measures


RT
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:28 UTC
london lockdown protest 26 september
Demonstrators descended on London for the second straight weekend to air their disapproval of the coronavirus guidelines, with police warning they will break up the rally if protesters don't follow social distancing rules.

Several thousand protesters assembled at Trafalgar Square on Saturday, with some eyewitnesses claiming that attendance was even higher than the turnout at a similar event held last weekend.

Demonstrators held signs, waved British flags and cheered as speakers addressed the crowd. At one point the crowd could be heard chanting "freedom" as people whistled and clapped.

The protest, dubbed We Do Not Consent, received a warning from the Metropolitan Police, which said it would intervene if the protesters don't abide by social distancing guidelines.

Comment: Whilst the days may seem increasingly darker, there is still hope, because it would appear that not only is the movement questioning the government narrative growing but we're also seeing an increasing number of regional figureheads who have all criticised the futility and irrationality of these measures; as seen in Leicester in the UK, Marseille in France, and Madrid in Spain:

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Take 2

Christmas movies are going gay this year, but is this really progress for LGBT people?


RT
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:56 UTC
Jonathan Bennett
© Getty Images / Paul ArchuletaActor Jonathan Bennett (R) attends Hallmark Channel's 10th Anniversary of "Countdown To Christmas" screening and party at 189 by Dominique Ansel on November 20, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
The Hallmark and Lifetime channels are targeting their Christmas movies at gay audiences this year. Activists have hailed this as a victory, but there will be little to celebrate in terms of quality filmmaking.

"Don we now our gay apparel" takes on a whole new meaning this year as The Hallmark Channel airs The Christmas House, its first gay-themed Christmas movie.

The film stars Jonathan Bennett as one half of a gay married couple who visit family as they anxiously await a call about adopting their first child.

According to PinkNews, "LGBT+ fans have long been crying out for a queer festive film - and this year, they have finally been granted their grown-up Christmas wish".

PinkNews also reported that, "In July, queer Hallmark Christmas fans were sent into a frenzy when the company confirmed the LGBT+ Christmas films were on the way."

The 'queer frenzy' over The Christmas House is heightened by the fact that the Lifetime Channel also has a gay-themed holiday film this year, The Christmas Set-Up. Looks like there will be a lot of same sex canoodling under the mistletoe on TV this holiday season.
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Cult

With misogyny now a hate crime, we're officially criminalising thought

Frank Furedi
RT
Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:08 UTC
police desk booking handcuffs phone
© Getty Images / SARINYAPINNGAM
We'll soon have thought police exploring our private lives

Silence the wolf whistles, don't say 'you look lovely in lycra' to that woman at the gym, and don't tweet about transgender women not being real women. You could be breaking the law and be charged.

Welcome to an Orwellian world where what you think about women, gays or Muslims may now be criminalised under hate crime legislation proposed by the Law Commission. Since its invention in the United States in the 1980s, the number of different hate crimes have been growing and growing.
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