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Rio de Janeiro: Police sniper kills armed man holding dozens hostage on bus

Stephen Sorace
Fox News
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
The armed man was neutralized after a four-hour standoff with police.
© Reuters
The armed man was neutralized after a four-hour standoff with police.
A Brazilian police sniper fatally shot an armed man who held dozens of people hostage on a public bus in Rio de Janeiro after a four-hour standoff, officials said.

The hostage-taker, armed with a gun and a knife, was seen on Brazilian TV exiting the passenger bus and being immediately surrounded by police. He was reportedly arrested at the scene. Rio de Janeiro Gov. Wilson Witzel later confirmed the man had died.

All of the hostages were released unharmed, Rio de Janeiro State Military Police said.

The hostage situation began around 5:30 a.m. local time Tuesday on a busy bridge linking Niteroi to downtown Rio de Janeiro. Police shut down traffic to the bridge - leaving hundreds of vehicles lined up in both directions - and placed a sniper on a nearby perch.
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Daily Mail: Ghislaine Maxwell staged LA photo with close friend and attorney

Louise Boyle
Daily Mail
Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:06 UTC
ghislaine maxwell
© New York Post
The first picture of Ghislaine Maxwell in more than three years was staged by her close friend and attorney, Leah Saffian, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.

A photo of Maxwell, 57, was published last week at an In-N-Out Burger joint in Los Angeles, the day after DailyMail.com broke the world exclusive that Epstein's alleged madam had been living under the radar at a Massachusetts mansion with her boyfriend Scott Borgerson for the past three years.

The In-N-Out burger joint picture was published by the New York Post on Thursday after they obtained it from Saffian, 60.

In the picture, Maxwell is seen staring at the camera with a tray of food and two drinks. A dog, which is understood to be Saffian's dog named Dexter, is at her feet.


Comment: The pooch in question:
dexter

Saffian's social media accounts included pictures of her dog Dexter (pictured), who also has his own Facebook page and Instagram account
ghislaine maxwell

Maxwell is reading a book in the picture but the title is not visible. The New York Post named the book as, The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives.


Comment: Obviously Maxwell wouldn't stage a photo reading Ostrovsky's By Way of Deception.


According to the photograph's metadata, reviewed by DailyMail.com, the photograph is tagged with 'Meadowgate'. Metadata provides information about the rights of the photograph to users.

Saffian is president of Meadowgate Media Investments Inc, according to public records.
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Early Epstein accuser Alicia Arden: Police could have stopped him in 1997 but didn't take me seriously

Katie Campione and Jennifer Peltz
Associated Press
Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:50 UTC
alicia arden
© AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File
More than two decades before Jeffrey Epstein took his own life, a woman went into a California police station and filed one of the earliest sex-crime complaints against him: that he groped her during what she thought was a modeling interview for the Victoria's Secret catalog.

Alicia Arden said she never heard back from investigators about her complaint. No charges ever came of it. And to this day she sees it as a glaring missed opportunity to bring the financier to justice long before he was accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls and women.

"If they would have taken me more seriously than they did, it could have helped all these girls," said Arden, an actress and model. "It could have been stopped."

With recent scrutiny focused on Epstein's life , wealth and connections to powerful people , his early brush with the law has been something of a mystery. After Arden's 1997 complaint to Santa Monica police first came to light several years ago, the department said little about it and Epstein's lawyers said only that police discounted her allegations.
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Red Flag

Paging Big Brother: In Amazon's bookstore, Orwell gets a rewrite

David Streitfeld
NY Times
Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:40 UTC
books
© Damien Maloney for The New York Times
In George Orwell's "1984," the classics of literature are rewritten into Newspeak, a revision and reduction of the language meant to make bad thoughts literally unthinkable. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words," one true believer exults.

Now some of the writer's own words are getting reworked in Amazon's vast virtual bookstore, a place where copyright laws hold remarkably little sway. Orwell's reputation may be secure, but his sentences are not.

Over the last few weeks I got a close-up view of this process when I bought a dozen fake and illegitimate Orwell books from Amazon. Some of them were printed in India, where the writer is in the public domain, and sold to me in the United States, where he is under copyright.
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Jordan Peterson tweets video trashing deepfakes as 'threat to Western democracies'

Zara Muradyan
Sputnik
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:21 UTC
jordan peterson
© CC BY 2.0 / Gage Skidmore / Jordan Peterson
A neural network, called "NotJordanPeterson", has been trained to produce deep fake audios that mimic the voice of the Canadian psychologist, making him say things he never actually said - and people are already freaking out.

Canadian clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and culture warrior Jordan Peterson has tweeted a YouTube video revealing the danger of deepfakes for current and future generations just days after an audio spoofing website replicating his voice was discovered online.

Aside from the fact that the video, posted on the YouTube channel The Thinkery, addressed the "NotJordanPeterson" neural network that can make the AI model say anything one wants in the professor's voice, it also took a look at some potentially disturbing consequences of the further development of such technology.
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Meat tax will take food off poor people's tables so that wealthy eco-socialists can feel virtuous

Igor Ogorodnev
RT
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:13 UTC
hot dog
© Getty / ullstein bild
This is how you impose an unpopular and ineffective environmentalist policy that will hit the poorest citizens hardest, is bound to create a host of unintended consequences, and is founded on speculative science to begin with.

You are a centrist government in a democratic Western country. You want to be seen to be taking action on the environment, but you believe in consumer capitalism, and therefore wouldn't dare to dismantle the profit-making machinery that actually contributes most of the CO2 within your economy. You praise the ideals of the Green New Deal, only because you know it will never become reality.

Your target must be insignificant economically, yet high-profile in its symbolic value. Meat works perfectly. Eating it already has an aura of hedonistic licentiousness, and restricting consumption covers several bases - animal cruelty, public health, and most importantly, climate change resulting from intensive livestock farming. You will get years of headlines, just as when you banned plastic bags or forced people to pay deposits on plastic bottles.
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Mercedes caught 'spying on drivers with secret tracking devices'


RT
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 14:11 UTC
mercedes
© Mike / Pexels
Mercedes-Benz has found itself at the center of an apparently illegal spying operation, following reports that it installed tracking devices on thousands of vehicles and shared customer location data with third parties.

According to the Sun, Mercedes-Benz fitted secret sensors to all new and used vehicles sold through its official dealers from as far back as 2018.

These sensors can pinpoint a vehicle's location and the data is then transmitted to a central location. Both the driver and car information can then be passed to bailiffs who can then seize and repossess the vehicle from indebted drivers at will.

The company sold more than 170,000 new cars in Britain this year, roughly 80 percent of which are reportedly sold on finance plans.
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Red Flag

Miss Nevada claims she was banned from competing in Miss America over pro-Trump posts on social media

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 13:59 UTC
Katie Jo Williams

Katie Jo Williams
Miss Nevada says she was banned from competing in the upcoming Miss America beauty contest because of her refusal to hide her support for President Trump.

"I was officially disqualified from competing in the Miss America pageant for 2019," said Katie Jo Williams in an Instagram video. She says organizers told her she was "too political" to be involved.

Williams asked what she could do to resolve the issue, and was told the only recourse was to delete everything she had posted on social media.

The director of the pageant sent screenshots which included pictures of Williams in her Trump 2020 hat, professing her love for America and her opposition to Antifa, making it clear that they all needed to be erased.
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Propaganda

UK: Pub landlord gives away 100 free meals a day to children facing holiday hunger

Colin Drury
The Independent
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:50 UTC
pub hungry children

The Crown Inn, Keynsham ( Google )
A pub is to give away 100 free meals to hungry children every day for the rest of summer, in an attempt to help poor families struggling through the six-week holidays.

The hot dinners will be cooked up and dished out at the Crown Inn in Keynsham, Somerset.

The initiative is aimed at helping families who receive free school meals during term time and find themselves struggling with the extra economic burden during the elongated break.


Comment: Feeding your children ONE extra meal is an actual 'economic burden' for many in the UK in 2019.


Comment: The government can blather all they like with their manipulated statistics about how the economy is improving but this and other stories prove the real state of the UK:

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Heart - Black

UK: Murdered newlywed officer dragged under Travellers' getaway van, then hit by police vehicle

Henry Martin
Daily Mail
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 01:37 UTC
PC Andrew Harper

Newlywed PC Andrew Harper had married his fiancée Lissie on July 18, and they were due to go on honeymoon together next week
A police officer attending a burglary was dragged beneath a van for several hundred yards before being hit by a police dog vehicle responding to the incident, according to reports.

PC Andrew Harper, 28, was attending the scene in Sulhamstead, near Reading, before being dragged down the road when he was hit by a Seat 'getaway' van at 11.30pm on Thursday.

The newlywed officer, who married fiancée Lissie four weeks ago, was thrown from the vehicle's undercarriage before being struck by a police vehicle thought to have been part of a dog unit taking part in the pursuit, The Times reported.

A witness said he heard an officer yelling: 'Stay with me, stay with me, keep breathing,' as PC Harper lay fatally injured in the road.

Ten people - including a boy of 13 - have been arrested after what Prime Minister Boris Johnson described as a 'mindless and brutal' crime.

Yesterday officers were seen attending a nearby Travellers' site near Burghfield, where inquiries were carried out in relation to the incident.

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