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Court hands sex predator Jeffrey Epstein another break, prosecutors tells abuse victims plea deal will stand

Emily Michot and Julie K. Brown
The Miami Herald
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:32 UTC
jeffrey epstein victims

Millionaire sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein and accuser victims
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, despite sexually abusing dozens of underage girls according to police and prosecutors. His victims have never had a voice, until now.

Suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was handed another break by the Department of Justice on Monday when federal prosecutors rejected his victims' efforts to throw out his plea deal and prosecute him for abusing dozens of underage girls.

In the 35-page motion, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia, federal prosecutors said that there is no legal basis to invalidate Epstein's non-prosecution agreement - and they warned the federal judge in the case against doing the same.

U.S. Attorney Byung "B.J." Pak said that because Congress did not outline specific penalties in the Crime Victims' Rights Act when it was created by Congress, Epstein's victims have no right to demand anything from the government - not even an apology. A federal judge ruled earlier this year that the plea deal violated that legislation.

Comment: In this sick world, money and connections can get you, or protect you, from just about anything.

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Project Veritas expose: Google whistleblower exposes efforts to influence 2020 election against Trump - UPDATE


RT
Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:09 UTC
Donald Trump
© Reuters/Carlos Barria
Google interferes with search results, censors conservative views and even directly manipulates facts in the name of 'fairness', according to internal video and documents a whistleblower has turned over to Project Veritas.

The internet giant has a near-monopoly on web searches globally and owns the most popular video sharing site, YouTube. The alarming information provided to the conservative transparency activists shows the company's executives putting their thumb on the scale in an effort to "prevent the next Trump situation," as one of them put it.

Monday's expose includes an undercover video of Jen Genai, Google's head of 'Responsible Innovation', outlining the measures already being taken to fight the US president in the upcoming 2020 election.


Comment: See also: Update 6/26/19: The Google SJW's just can't help themselves, pulling a damning Project Veritas video from Youtube, which they own. Kind of a bad look guys:
Google's video platform YouTube is apparently no place for content that accuses the tech giant of political bias and election meddling. An expose based on a sting operation was taken down by the company a day after its release.

YouTube, the world's most popular video sharing platform, which is owned by Google, soon took down the videos that were uploaded by Project Veritas, its head James O'Keefe reported. The footage was removed "due to a privacy claim by a third party," a message now tells anyone trying to view it.

The third party is probably Jen Genai, Google's head of 'Responsible Innovation,' who was featured in the report, discussing the company's policies in a secretly filmed interview with Project Veritas agents. She also addressed the expose in a blog post, saying that the people she met "lied about their true identities, filmed me without my consent, selectively edited and spliced the video to distort my words and the actions of my employer, and published it widely online."

Genai said Project Veritas ambushed her to get "juicy soundbites" for their report, and insisted that she is not some powerful executive with influence on Google politics. The claim that Google was going to influence the 2020 presidential election "is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course," she said. Whatever Google does with its search algorithms and rankings is meant to prevent "foreign interference" and not to tip the scales in domestic debates, she added, which presumably makes the company's gatekeeping techniques all fine.

Project Veritas previously had its videos taken down by YouTube. Just this month, its report on alleged suppression of conservative voices on Pinterest was removed from Google's platform, which again cited privacy violation as the reason for the move.

This month, YouTube also banned or demonetized a number of creators after a complaint by Vox journalist Carlos Maza. The crackdown was done under the platform's new rules on content, which are meant to fight online harassment and hate speech. Critics say in effect they stifle political debate by allowing left-wing commentators to paint their critics as harassers and have YouTube take punitive action.
Trump has gone so far as to say that Google is 'trying to rig the election' in 2020:
"They're trying to rig the election" in 2020, Trump said, seemingly singling out Google in an interview with Fox Business on Wednesday.

Trump blasted Twitter and Google for silencing conservative voices and harboring "hatred for the Republicans."

"Twitter is just terrible, what they do. They don't let you get the word out," he said.
I'll tell you what, they should be sued because what's happening with the bias.
The president added that the tech giants "make it much harder for me to get out the message."

"These people are all Democrats. It's totally biased toward Democrats. If I announced tomorrow that I'm going to become a nice liberal Democrat, I would pick up five times more followers."

Two days earlier, right-wing transparency group Project Veritas shared a video in which Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, argued against proposals to break up the company, as this would cause Google to fail at "preventing the next Trump situation."

Gennai later claimed that she had used "some imprecise language" and had no idea that she was being filmed. Nevertheless, the incident added to the longstanding accusations of liberal, left-wing bias that conservatives have leveled against Google.
Political figures are not the only ones in Google's crosshairs: Leaked Google doc describes Shapiro, Jordan Peterson as 'nazis using dogwhistles'

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No more 'Trump bump'? Media ratings slip as Orange Man Bad fatigue sets in

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:42 UTC
trump
© REUTERS/Erin Scott
Mainstream US media reportedly admit that flogging outrage about President Donald Trump doesn't pay like it used to, but spin this as Trump's fault and not their own. But will the media change their tune?

The term "Trump bump" has been used since the 2016 election to describe the rise in subscriptions and ratings for media outlets that have made it their mission to obsess about the White House's current resident, generating an ever-escalating spiral of outrage, clicks and revenue.

At some point in the past year, however, that approach seemed to stop working, and news executives are now talking about a "Trump slump," according to Axios.

The New York Times, for example, has boasted that their subscriptions soared after Trump criticized them as fake news. Yet their chief operating officer Meredith Kopit Levien admitted to Axios in March that this boom was pretty much over by mid-2018.
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Putin wants you to do your own thinking - that's all

Phil Butler
Near Eastern Outlook
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:00 UTC
Putin
What does Putin really want? Well, whatever it is I just hope the New York Times will finally get the Russian leader's master plan for humanity right soon. Another story in the world's most famous newspaper has me wondering if anybody to the west of Lavry, in Pskov Oblast has a clue. Here are some notes on the most recent misinterpretation of Russian policy.

I am sorry to say, I cannot tell you exactly what the most recent New York Times Putin profile says, because I reached my free limit of articles and was asked to pay $1 per week to be a subscriber. If only the publishers there in New York could stop forcing liberal world order propaganda down my throat, $4 dollars a month might be a good price. Sadly, this most recent Putin demonization can only go out to publisher A.G. Sulzberger's devoted news zombies. The good news for NEO readers is, other liberal elite news outlets are accessible to the general public.

Comment: One of the best ways to get an idea of what Putin 'wants' is to listen to what he has to say for himself: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Saudi Special Forces capture leader of Yemeni branch of Daesh


Sputnik
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:40 UTC
Saudi special forces
© AFP 2019 / RABIH MOGHRABI
Saudi special forces
Saudi special forces have arrested the leader of the Yemeni branch of the Daesh* terrorist group, Saudi state news agency SPA reported.

According to the report, Abu Osama al-Muhajer, along with several other members of the organisation, were captured on 3 June. Weapons, ammunition and telecommunication devices have been seized during the operation, the SPA reported.

In April, the terrorist group Daesh claimed responsibility for an attack on a Saudi police station northwest of Riyadh that left four militants killed.
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ICE hard-liner to replace outgoing CBP commissioner as immigration tensions escalate

Jorge L. Ortiz and Alan Gomez
USA TODAY
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:36 UTC
John Sanders
© J. Scott Applewhite, AP
John Sanders, left, has resigned as acting commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection agency, effective July 5
The head of the Customs and Border Protection agency is leaving, and his replacement probably won't warm the hearts of advocates for immigrants.

John Sanders, the acting CBP commissioner, resigned Tuesday amid reports of migrant children at the border being held in unsafe and filthy conditions.

His resignation comes as public furor has increased over the treatment of detained migrant kids after lawyers reported some of the older children were caring for toddlers at a facility in Clint, Texas, and they lacked adequate food, water and sanitation.

Sanders is expected to be replaced by Mark Morgan, a former Marine and FBI agent who has been leading Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for fewer than two months, according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been finalized.
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'Can't wish away' India-Russia defence ties say sources before Pompeo visits Modi

Nidhi Razdan
NDTV
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:45 UTC
S-400

The S-400 Triumf missile is an advanced long-range surface-to-air missile manufactured by Russia
Diplomatic sources in India say all issues are on the table, and there is no structured agenda for the discussions, in which Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will host a working lunch for Mike Pompeo

India, which plans to push ahead with an $5 billion air-defence missile deal with Russia despite the threat of US sanctions, will point out that the US has a law that offers a way out, sources said. New Delhi's stance will be made clear to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who would reach New Delhi tonight, sources said.

"We have a longstanding defence relationship with Russia which we cannot wish away," a person with direct knowledge of the matter told NDTV.

Comment: The US is forcing India to choose between the failing, unipolar, US dominated system or the emerging world, as they US did with Turkey, but, for the moment, it seems India wants to sit on the fence for as long as it possibly can:

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"All Russians are bastards!" declares Ukrainian delegate to Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe


RT
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:19 UTC
Borislav Beryoza
© Wikipedia / Vadim Chyprina
Borislav Beryoza
Tempers have been running high at the PACE this week as the rights body is about to reinstate Russia as a fully-fledged member. One of Ukraine's delegates went as far as declaring in English all Russians are 'bastards'.

The outburst came from Borislav Beryoza, a Russophobic Ukrainian MP with a long record of disruptive behavior that marks him even among the, to say it politely, expressive delegation from Kiev. The insult came on Tuesday as he was entering the Palace of Europe, the gathering site of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

The independent MP is hardly a stranger to verbal and even physical abuse, although he usually prefers his insults in the Russian or Ukrainian language. His favorite target over the last few years has been Russian journalist Olga Skabeeva, who covers PACE meetings for the Russian news channel Rossiya 24 and also hosts a political talk show with her husband Evgeny Popov, who published the video.

Comment: It says a lot about the state of Ukraine that this is their representative in Europe:

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Leaked Google doc describes Shapiro, Jordan Peterson as 'nazis using dogwhistles'


Project Veritas
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 08:32 UTC
google
Project Veritas has obtained a newly leaked document from Google that appears to show a Google employee and member of Google "transparency-and-ethics" group calling conservative and libertarian commentators, including Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro, "nazis." Project Veritas received this document after the release of its investigation into Google through the "Be Brave" campaign at VeritasTips@protonmail.com.

The email apparently was sent as part of the Google "transparency-and-ethics" group internal communications and suggests that content from PragerU, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro should be disabled from the "suggestion feature...if we understand that PragerU, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro et al are nazis using the dog whistles..."

"I don't think correctly identifying far-right content is beyond our capabilities. But if it is, why not go with Meredith's suggestion of disabling the suggestion feature?"
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Israeli UN Ambassador: Palestinian surrender & 'national suicide' is needed for peace

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 08:32 UTC
Danny Danon Israeli Ambassador UN
© U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the U.N. Security Council.
This came out yesterday in the pages of the New York Times:
The "economic workshop" in Bahrain this week, a summit of business leaders and political figures, is the first step in the rollout of the Trump administration's long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. However, because the plan offers a new approach, many on the Palestinian side, including President Mahmoud Abbas and the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, say that the plan is dead on arrival and that engaging with it is tantamount to a Palestinian declaration of surrender. I ask: What's wrong with Palestinian surrender?
Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon's opinion piece, titled "What's Wrong With Palestinian Surrender?" posits that the current Bahrain conference (today and tomorrow) is something that Palestinians should have embraced, rather than rejected.
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