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Trump: Reality Winner's crimes 'small potatoes' compared to Killary's


RT
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:06 UTC
Reality Winner
© Reuters
An undated booking photo of Reality Winner.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to bash the Justice Department for sentencing ex-NSA contractor Reality Winner to five years imprisonment, while letting Hillary Clinton off the hook for her email server misuse.

"Ex-NSA contractor to spend 63 months in jail over 'classified' information. Gee, this is 'small potatoes' compared to what Hillary Clinton did! So unfair Jeff, Double Standard," the President tweeted Friday.

Winner was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment by a federal court on Thursday. She pleaded guilty in June to leaking classified information on alleged 'Russian interference' in US election systems to the press a year earlier. At the time, Winner worked for the agency as a translator, speaking Persian, Dari, and Pashto.
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Meddling again: Leaked 49-page memo shows Soros' hand is behind social media censorship of conservative groups

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:15 UTC
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Media Matters founder David Brock is pushing for the destruction of Donald Trump at Soros' behest.

A new leaked memo obtained by The Free Beacon documents how George Soros funded groups plotted with Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to eliminate conservative "right wing propaganda."

The recent wave of censorship of conservative voices on the internet by tech giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple mirrors a plan concocted by a coalition of George Soros-funded, progressive groups to take back power in Washington from President Trump's administration.

A confidential, 49-page memo for defeating Trump by working with the major social-media platforms to eliminate "right wing propaganda and fake news" was presented in January 2017 by Media Matters founder David Brock at a retreat in Florida with about 100 donors, the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time.

Comment: Soros doesn't confine his activities to American shores either.

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22 children and 4 women killed in Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Hodeidah, Yemen


RT
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:05 UTC
Government force fighter firing
© Global Look Press/ Taleb Almamari
Government force fighter firing in June in Hodeidah
At least 26 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen's coastal town of Hodeidah, local media report. The strike reportedly targeted people as they fled the besieged al-Duraihimi district.

The strike in al-Duraihimi, which lies some 20km from the strategic Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, claimed the lives of at least 22 children and four women, according to local TV channel AlMasirah.Saba news agency, however, puts the death toll at 31.

The head of Hodeidah's health office said the group had picked up an old truck after an airstrike on Wednesday.

Comment: See also: Media silent as US aids Saudi Arabia in bombing children so they can 'build oil port' in Yemen

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Light Sabers

Information war: Secret meeting of social media and tech giants to tackle midterm elections


RT
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:34 UTC
Secret meeting of tech & social media giants
© Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
Representatives from America's tech giants are meeting in private to discuss strategies for countering "information operations" ahead of the midterm elections. The meeting comes amid growing concern over social media censorship.

The secret meeting, which will take place on Friday at Twitter's headquarters in downtown San Francisco, will focus on "information operations, election protection, and the work we are all doing to tackle these challenges," BuzzFeed News has reported, citing an email written by Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher. A dozen companies, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, will reportedly be in attendance.

During the meeting, each company will explain the work they've been doing to counter "information operations," with time allotted afterwards for a discussion about specific problems that each company is facing. The final agenda item, according to the leaked email, will be to decide if the tech giants should meet regularly to discuss their anti-meddling measures.
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Blackbox

Grassley's committee wants to hear Cohen's 'Trump evidence' as his lawyer denies 'mixed up' Russia claims


RT
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:29 UTC
Michael Cohen
© Yana Paskova / Agence France-Presse
Mr. Cohen is looking a little stressed?
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said his committee is interested in Michael Cohen's alleged evidence on President Trump. However, recent comments by Cohen's lawyer have cast doubt over such 'evidence.'

Michael Cohen, Trump's one-time 'fixer' and attorney was convicted on eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud in a plea deal with prosecutors reached earlier this week. One of these claims involves 'hush money' paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, who Trump allegedly had an affair with in 2006.

Cohen, who once said that he would take a bullet for Trump, has now flipped and claims that Trump directed him to "commit a crime" by ordering the payment. Trump denies ordering Cohen to break the law and says that the money came from his own fortune, not the campaign account. Trump accused Cohen of "making up stories" to get a better plea deal.

Comment: Cohen does not need money. The man's a millionaire weasel who got bad legal advice.

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Corbyn announces Labour plan to tax tech giants, overhaul BBC


RT
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:28 UTC
bbc corbyn
© Stephen Hird/Reuters (L)/ Peter Nicholls/Reuters (R)
Britain's Labour Party would tax tech giants and shake up the BBC, as part of a media strategy to be announced by leader Jeremy Corbyn. It aims to build "a free and democratic media for the digital age" if the party wins power.

Corbyn is expected to outline the plan during a speech at the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival on Thursday, where he will call for radical reform of the UK media landscape, and claim journalists are being "held back" by media tycoons or, in the case of the BBC, by excessive state influence.

"We need to set journalists and citizens free to hold power to account, by breaking the grip of tech giants and billionaires on our media," Corbyn said Wednesday night on Twitter.


Outlining his vision for the future of the BBC, the Labour leader's speech will promote complete transparency about the diversity makeup of the BBC's work force and allow for the election of some BBC board members by the corporation's staff as well as license fee payers. Labour would also remove the government's powers of appointment.


Comment: What exactly is that supposed to mean?

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Sheriff

Russia launches investigation into Ukrainian radicals' call to murder Russian police officers


RT
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:14 UTC
neo nazis Ukraine
© Alexandr Maksimenko / Sputnik
Right Sector during a march on the 72nd anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Kiev
A criminal case against members of the Ukrainian extremist group, who called on supporters to kill 50 Russian law enforcement officers, has been launched by the Russian agency for the investigation of especially serious crimes.

In a message published on the Investigative Committee's website, chief spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko wrote that a criminal case has started after a group of Right Sector members, who call themselves "Right Sector's Central National Court," wrote and published a document which they presented as a "court sentence" on the internet.

This text read that all members of the extremist group must "at convenient time and through means they find reasonable" kill 50 people from Russian law enforcement agencies, courts and other state bodies in revenge for the prison sentence handed to Right Sector member Aleksandr Kostenko by a district court in Simferopol, Crimea.

Comment: No Nazis in Ukraine? Right Sektor leader Yarosh is not an 'army adviser', he's a war criminal

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Biohazard

Top ten holes in the UK govt's official Salisbury narrative: #3 - The capability

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:17 UTC
strainer
Once again I return to Theresa May's statement of 26th May, in which she stated the following:
"In conclusion, as I have set out, no other country has a combination of the capability, the intent and the motive to carry out such an act."
She then went on to claim:
"We have been led by evidence not by speculation."
However, as I showed in Part 1 and Part 2, her statement to the Commons contained no actual evidence of motive or intent. Claims and assertions, but nothing more.

But what of capability? Looking through the statement, here are the key passages that might be said to fall into this category:
"As I set out for the House in my statements earlier this month, our world-leading experts at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down positively identified the chemical used for this act as a Novichok - a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by the Soviet Union."

"And we have information indicating that within the last decade, Russia has investigated ways of delivering nerve agents probably for assassination - and as part of this programme has produced and stockpiled small quantities of Novichoks."
Her evidence, such that it is, therefore falls into two categories: firstly, capability with regard to the weapon allegedly used to poison the Skripals; secondly, capability with regard to method of delivery of the weapon.

Comment: See also:

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Handcuffs

Bureaucratic dysfunction? French system 'mistakenly' releases French terror suspect - twice


RT
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:13 UTC
French prison
© Charles Platiau / Reuters
A terrorism suspect, allegedly involved in plotting an attack in Lyon, France, in 2014, was mistakenly released from custody after a judge forgot to renew his pre-trial detention, the French government has confirmed.

The French judicial system is under extremely tight scrutiny after a satirical weekly newspaper 'Le Canard Enchaîné' published a piece alleging that a suspected jihadist, Oualid B, was released from prison on April 3 after a judge forgot to renew his custody term.

Furthermore, the suspect was once again arrested in May for driving without a license and outside his probation area. Police also found his mobile phone contained images of armed jihadists and a propaganda film of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Yet following his immediate court appearance in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, Oualid B. again emerged free.

The head of the judiciary, Nicole Belloubet, has launched an internal probe to "identify the reason for this serious dysfunction," of the court system, Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said Wednesday. "The priority is to find this individual," he said, noting that the suspect's release could potentially have "serious consequences."

Comment: And yet, they never make a mistake when one is late with tax payments. Strange that...

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Bad Guys

Trump's lawyer Giuliani warns Americans would 'revolt' if he is impeached


RT
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:01 UTC
trump rally
© Leah Millis / Reuters
Americans would revolt if President Donald Trump is eventually impeached under some phony 'political' reason by the newly-elected and potentially hostile presidential Congress, Rudy Giuliani has claimed.

"You could only impeach [Trump] for political reasons and the American people would revolt against that," Giuliani told Sky News while on a trip to Scotland.

Democratic forces hoping to nail Trump for alleged Russia collusion are now pinning their hopes on Michael Cohen, who was convicted on eight counts tax fraud. A former lawyer for the billionaire, Cohen also stood accused of campaign-finance violations at Trump's direction and paying hush money to two adult female entertainers to buy their silence. Giuliani was quick to brush those theories aside.
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