Hollywood actor Jon Voight has hailed Donald Trump as the greatest US president since Abraham Lincoln for making all the right moves, much to the delight and disgust of Twitter.
Voight trended on Twitter after posting his two-part video endorsement of Trump addressed to "My fellow Americans," in which the film star commended the president for "battling the left and their absurd words of destruction."
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Site administrator Montri Salangam (seated) was jailed for 146 years
Site administrator Montri Salangam (seated) was jailed for 146 years
The arrests were made in Thailand, Australia and the US and more are expected, Interpol said.
The investigation began in 2017 and focused on a hidden "dark web" site with 63,000 users worldwide.
Police believe 100 more children have suffered abuse and are working to identify them.
Operation Blackwrist was launched by Interpol after it detected images showing 11 boys aged under 13 being abused on a site where people can use encrypted software to maintain secrecy.
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Protesters in Tel Aviv, May 25, 2019
Protesters in Tel Aviv, May 25, 2019
Addressing the crowd, Kahol Lavan co-chair Benny Gantz said this was the first protest he's even been to because as the former chief of the Israeli army he could not attend politically-oriented events.
"Israel is the fulfillment of a dream but I'm here to say loud and clear what we all feel, that the dream is falling apart. There are those who are attempting to replace the people's rule with the rule of a single man and to enslave an entire nation to the interests of one man," Gantz said.
Comment: Bibi has just 48 hours to satisfy all available right-wing party winners in Israel's recent election to secure a coalition government with a majority of just one.
After that, it's back to another election...
The plant which was poised to add one megawatt of additional power to the city's energy capacity often didn't meet its intended goal. Maintenance during the summer and winter months ended up being too costly for the long term.
According to city Councillor Phil Turnbull the low price of natural gas and the high upkeep was the reason behind the city's decision to terminate the project.
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A Syrian Democratic Forces fighter after the defeat of the final Isis outpost in Baghouz, Syria, in March.
A Syrian Democratic Forces fighter after the defeat of the final Isis outpost in Baghouz, Syria, in March.
A court official, who spoke to the press on condition of anonymity, said the trio were sentenced "after it was proven that they were members of the terrorist Islamic State organization."
The men have 30 days to appeal their conviction.
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The moment Federic Aigouy was attacked by a police officer when he was filming a protester’s arrest.
The moment Federic Aigouy was attacked by a police officer when he was filming a protester’s arrest.
A video Federic Aigouy shared on Twitter shows a police officer wearing riot gear and holding a baton striking him at the moment when he was filming a protester's arrest. The correspondent had a label on his clothes that clearly identified him as a member of the press, RT France said.
Comment: As of May 18, 2019, the Yellow Vest protests have marked 26 weeks, half a year of weekly protest, which show no signs of abating. The number may rise and fall from week to week, but the discontent with the government is consistent.
Some 15,500 demonstrators have rallied across France, according to figures from the Interior Ministry. While the organizers claim the figure is just over 40,000 participants, it's still no match to the numbers the movement attracted when it started in November last year.
Authorities say 1,600 people went out in the streets of Paris, although Occurrence, an independent research firm that has been following Yellow Vest rallies from the very beginning, put the number at 5,600. The Paris march was largely peaceful - and observed by a large police force - yet some minor scuffles were observed.
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A line of climbers attempt to stand at the summit of Mount Everest. A British climber, Robin Haynes died on the mountain on Saturday.
A line of climbers attempt to stand at the summit of Mount Everest. A British climber, Robin Haynes died on the mountain on Saturday.
Robin Fisher, 44, made it to the summit Saturday morning, but collapsed after 150 meters on the trek down. His Sherpa attempted to wake him up to change his oxygen and give him water, but was unsuccessful.
"Our guides tried to help but he died soon after," Murari Sharma of Everest Parivar Expedition told the BBC.
The high level of traffic on the mountain can be seen in the photo above, which shows climbers waiting in an area 26,200 feet above sea level, called "the Death Zone." Nepal's tourism ministry has issued a record number of permits to 381 climbers this season, one reason for the overcrowding.
The post reads in the typical QAnon cryptic word salad style that its adherents often annoyingly imitate when normal people try to engage them in an adult conversation:
"Under protection.
Threat is real.
Key to DNC 'source' 'hack' '187'.
Q"
I find this subject very tedious, and my regular readers aren't generally the types to fall for this sort of toxic propaganda construct, but I'm putting this information out there anyway as a public service since many people are being deluded by it.
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Julian Assange is being held at the Belmarsh Prison, London
Julian Assange is being held at the Belmarsh Prison, London
The charges being prepared by the US Department of Justice carry the death penalty.
Chelsea Manning, who courageously blew the whistle on US atrocities by giving information to WikiLeaks, endured seven years of torture in a military prison and was jailed again last week for refusing to testify against Assange.
But according to Amnesty International (AI), neither Assange nor Manning are "prisoners of conscience" and their defence is not being actively pursued by the human rights charity.
Comment: It can be clearly shown that it is a propaganda arm of the UK, and western interests in general.
- Amnesty International: US State Department Propaganda Machine, Betrays Real Human Rights
- Amnesty International: An unmasked face of British intelligence
- Amnesty International admits Syria's 'torture prison' report fabricated entirely in UK
- UPDATE: Moscow authorities lock down Amnesty International office
- Amnesty International and HRW are in the business of demonizing the West's official enemies - Researcher
- Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch publish biased report on eastern Ukraine, making them accomplices to human rights violations
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The freak incident occurred on board of Red Wings flight WZ-307, shortly after it departed Moscow's Domodedovo airport for Simferopol on Thursday. One of the passengers apparently "went mad," as the eyewitnesses put it, and caused all sorts of trouble on board.
The passenger, identified as a man in his early thirties, began to bad-mouth pilots and claim they had fallen asleep, incited panic on board, and shouted that everyone "will die." He then reportedly tried to strangle a woman and beat up another passenger with a cell phone.
Comment: Of 63,000 users only 9 have been arrested so far: