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Prosecution witness in Netanyahu trial killed in plane crash in Greece

Yonah Jeremy Bob
Jerusalem Post
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 19:16 UTC
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A Cessna 172 aircraft (illustrative). Haim Garon, a former deputy director at the Communications Ministry, was a prosecution witness in the Netanyahu trial
One of the two people who were killed when their Israeli light aircraft crashed into the sea near the eastern Aegean island of Samos on Monday evening was to be a prosecution witness in the trial of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Haim Garon, a former deputy director of the Communications Ministry, was not considered a key witness, and his death will not prevent the case from proceeding.

The plane, a Cessna 172, reportedly departed from Israel and "encountered a problem on approach to the island's airport," crashing nearby, Greek media reported.

Garon and his wife, Esti, left on Monday afternoon on a flight from Haifa. The accident occurred at around 7:45 p.m.

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The digital elite: Some high-profile Facebook users 'allowed to break platform's rules'

Dan Milmo
The Guardian
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:37 UTC
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Facebook gives high-profile users special treatment, which includes immunity from its rules for some, and allowed Brazilian footballer Neymar to post nude pictures of a woman who had accused him of rape, according to a report.

The XCheck or "CrossCheck" system steers reviews of posts by well-known users such as celebrities, politicians and journalists into a separate system, according to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal. Under the programme, some users are "whitelisted" - not subject to enforcement action - while others are allowed to post material that violates Facebook rules, pending content reviews that often do not take place.

People are placed on the XCheck list - where they are given special scrutiny - if they meet criteria such as being "newsworthy", "influential or popular" or "PR risky". Names on the XCheck programme included Donald Trump, US senator Elizabeth Warren and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, although the report does not state whether those names were whitelisted at any point. By 2020 there were 5.8 million users on the XCheck list, the Wall Street Journal said.

In one example cited by the WSJ, Brazilian football star Neymar responded to a rape accusation in 2019 by posting Facebook and Instagram videos defending himself, which included showing viewers his WhatsApp correspondence with his accuser. The WhatsApp clips included the accuser's name and nude photos of her. Instagram and WhatsApp are owned by Facebook.

Instead of immediately deleting the material, which is Facebook's procedure for "nonconsensual intimate imagery", moderators were blocked for more than a day from removing the video, according to the WSJ.
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Biden in SoCal: 'You either keep Newsom as your governor or you'll get Donald Trump - not a joke'

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:26 UTC
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Protesters carrying "F*ck Biden" signs greeted Joe Biden at all of his stops in Idaho and California on Monday.

More than 1,000 Trump supporters carrying "F*ck Biden" signs lined up out outside of Long Beach City College where Biden is campaigning with Governor Gavin Newsom on the eve of the recall election.

Biden's motorcade was booed by a mob of angry patriots as he pulled into the venue.

A desperate Joe Biden told the paltry crowd in Long Beach that if they don't vote in favor of Newsom on Tuesday, they will end up with Donald Trump.

"I'm gonna make this as simple as I can," said Biden. "You either keep Gavin Newsom as your governor or you'll get Donald Trump. It's not a joke."

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Comment: The American progressives really don't like Larry Elder.




Maybe that explains why the Newsom recall election is showing all the signs of being rigged to high heaven. Conservative voters are reporting being told they already voted; ballots are misprinting; non-residents received ballots; and other voters received multiple ballots.


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IBM colluded with Hitler's murderous program, now leads in creating vaccine passports

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Technocracy News
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 17:59 UTC
Hollerith Type III Tabulator
© Columbia University/MNRAS, Vol.92, No.7
Hollerith Type III Tabulator with its wiring panel exposed. This is one of the granddaddies of IBM's tabulators, when it was still using the Hollerith trademark. It was the first tabulator with a built-in printer
In 1932, IBM and the Technocracy movement shared the basement of Hamilton Hall, which is where Hollerith tabulator was developed. Both IBM and Technocracy played a role in Nazi Germany, but IBM's involvement was unspeakable yet thoroughly documented. IBM is now the leader in promoting and developing vaccine passports! - TN Editor

In a March 28, 2021, interview with Fox News' Steve Hilton, former Clinton adviser and author Naomi Wolf warned that mandatory COVID-19 passports will spell the "end of human liberty in the West":
"'Vaccine passport' sounds like a fine thing if you don't understand what those platforms can do," she said. "I'm [the] CEO of a tech company, I understand what these platforms can do. It is not about the vaccine, it's not about the virus, it's about your data.

Once this rolls out, you don't have a choice about being part of the system. What people have to understand is that any other functionality can be loaded onto that platform with no problem at all. It can be merged with your Paypal account, with your digital currency.

Microsoft is already talking about merging it with payment plans. Your network can be sucked up. It geolocates you everywhere you go. Your credit history can be included. All of your medical and health history can be included.

This has already happened in Israel, and six months later, we're hearing from activists that it's a two-tiered society and that basically, activists are ostracized and surveilled continually. It is the end of civil society, and they are trying to roll it out around the world.

It is absolutely so much more than a vaccine pass ... I cannot stress enough that it has the power to turn off your life, or to turn on your life, to let you engage in society or be marginalized."

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Western armies 'illegal' presence in Syria undermining hopes for peace in region, Putin says in surprise Moscow meeting with Assad


RT
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:33 UTC
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© Sputnik / Mikhail Klimenyev
An illegal occupation by Western troops is hampering the consolidation of Syria despite it being mostly freed from terrorists, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said during a meeting with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad.

The surprise exchange took place at the Kremlin on Monday, but the visit was only publicly revealed on Tuesday morning. It was the Syrian leader's first foreign trip since 2019, when he travelled to Iran.

Putin told Assad that the joint efforts of their armed forces have dealt a crippling blow to terrorists, allowing Damascus to regain control over more than 90% of its territory. However, some obstacles remain before a a "return to normal life" is possible in the country, he added. Syria has been fighting international terrorism since 2011, with the turnaround in the conflict coming after the deployment of Russian forces in the country at the request of Damascus in 2015.
The main problem, in my opinion, is that foreign armed forces are present in certain areas of the country without any UN mandate, without your authorization, which clearly contradicts international law, and prevents you from making a maximum effort to consolidate the country and move along the path of its restoration at a rate that would be possible if the entire territory was controlled by the legitimate government.
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Top American general warns war with Russia & China would 'destroy world' & America must find ways to make peace with its Eastern rivals


RT
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:15 UTC
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With global nuclear stockpiles growing and countries upgrading their warheads and rockets, there is an almost unprecedented need to de-escalate tensions and avert atomic armageddon, one of America's most senior officers has said.

Speaking at a meeting hosted by Washington think-tank The Brookings Institution on Monday, Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General John E. Hyten warned of the risks if conflicts spiral out of control, and expressed hope that cooler heads can prevail. "We never fought the Soviet Union," he said. "As for the great powers, our goal is to never go to war with China and Russia."

According to Hyten, such an event would "destroy the world and the global economy. It will be bad for everyone, and we have to ensure that we do not go down that path." However, the general went on, previous deals between Moscow and NATO after the fall of the USSR concluded "Russia was not a threat any more." At the same time, however, he alleges that the Russians were "modernizing their entire nuclear arsenal." This, he says, was because "I think they were worried about the US."
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20 years after 9/11, I no longer recognize my country. The US has become a malignant narcissist, infecting all it encounters

Scott Ritter
RT
Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:06 UTC
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© REUTERS/Jeff Christensen
It's said we become stronger in the face of adversity, as the journey back requires a degree of self-reflection that encourages healing. In the two decades after September 11, however, the US has learnt nothing about itself.

I was raised as a military brat - a special category of American youth imbued from an early age with the pride in being part of a collective united by a sense of duty to country and the selflessness of sacrifice when it came to fulfilling that duty. There was no concept of entitlement - everything that came your way was either earned or suffered, based on your actions or the actions of others in your group.

The military brat lived a life where at least one parent, but sometimes both, wore the uniform of one of the branches of the armed forces of the United States of America. In my case, it was my father, who served as an officer in the US Air Force. We moved every year and a half, on average, which meant, from the time I was born until I graduated high school, we packed up our belongings and started a new life somewhere else no fewer than 11 times, and I attended three different high schools: one in Hawaii, one in Turkey, and one in Germany. We learnt to love our country not from some inflated sense of worth, but rather from seeing it as others saw it - the good, the bad, and the ugly, but mainly the good.
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UK children will give consent for Covid injection NOT parents, health minister declares all over 12 to be targeted despite advisory body voting AGAINST scheme

Connor Boyd
Daily Mail
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:24 UTC
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Public Health England today published of a guide (pictured) to Covid-19 vaccination for children and young people
Fury has erupted tonight after ministers confirmed plans to vaccinate all children over 12 across the UK from next week - with experts and parents warning it may lead to unvaccinated pupils being 'bullied' and could even 'tear families apart'.

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi confirmed the plans to offer a single Pfizer jab to healthy 12 to 15-year-olds during a speech to the House of Commons tonight.

Comment: One can only hope that coercing children into suffering these experimental vaccines will be the red line for people everywhere:

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: The Red Line? Governments Extend Vaccine Mandates to Children




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Israeli spy tech firm infected ALL iPhone devices with 'Pegasus' malware


RT
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:53 UTC
Apple cyber hack
© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
Digital rights group CitizenLab has discovered a vulnerability that allowed Israeli spyware company NSO Group to implant its Pegasus malware onto virtually every iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch device.

CitizenLab revealed the vulnerability on Monday, a week after discovering it by analyzing the phone of a Saudi activist that had been infected with the malware. The discovery was announced to the public shortly after Apple rolled out an update to patch the vulnerability.

The vulnerability allowed the NSO Group's clients to send malicious files disguised as .gif files to a target's phone, which would then exploit "an integer overflow vulnerability in Apple's image rendering library" and leave the phone open to the installation of NSO Group's now-infamous 'Pegasus' malware.

Comment: We know that various methods of espionage has been ongoing for many years now - the NSA tapping the phones of politicians across the planet is yet another example - and, if we consider the current state of the world and the nonsensical and increasingly draconian rule people suffer under, in this recent hack we can see just one of the ways with which politicians can be made to act in lockstep: The cyber espionage state of Israel

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UK's Prince Andrew ignores pretrial hearing in US sex abuse case, says he was served summons incorrectly


RT
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:12 UTC
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Prince Andrew, Duke of York, looks on during the funeral of Prince Philip on the grounds of Windsor Castle in Windsor, Britain, April 17, 2021.
Prince Andrew, the British royal accused of sexual abuse in a lawsuit by one of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims, was not represented at a pretrial hearing in New York, with his lawyers saying he was improperly served papers.

The Duke of York was served legal papers late last month, ahead of a trial in which he is accused of sexual assault, battery and inflicting emotional distress on Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who also claims to have been abused by deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein when she was under the age of 18.

The civil case began in New York on Monday with a pretrial hearing. However, court documents filed by Andrew's legal team state that the disgraced prince is contesting the manner in which he was served the court summons, which was handed to police security outside the Royal Lodge in Windsor, England, instead of directly to Andrew by an agent of the crown.

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