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Hello! Chelsea Manning is still in jail for 'crimes against the deep state'

Harron Walker
Out
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:10 UTC

Here's your depressingly evergreen reminder that Chelsea Manning is still in jail.

The whistleblower-turned-activist was jailed on May 17 as punishment for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury's investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. As part of her sentence, she receives daily fines, which support network Chelsea Resists estimates have reached $30,000.

Manning, who served seven years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, was similarly jailed earlier this year for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions about WikiLeaks and Assange. She was incarcerated for over 60 days, about half of which she spent in solitary confinement — conditions that the United Nations would likely deem torturous.

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Fake news fails again: CNN's parent company sued for $50mn by Chinese billionaire claiming defamation

Ashley Cullins
Hollywood Reporter
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:33 UTC

A Chinese billionaire and Mar-a-Lago member is suing WarnerMedia over a CNN segment that he claims falsely implies he committed espionage and was on the verge of being deported.

Guo Wengui, who is known as Miles Kwok in the U.S., on Friday filed a $50 million lawsuit against WarnerMedia and CNN anchor Erin Burnett for defamation. According to the complaint, Guo is an "outspoken and vitriolic critic" of the Chinese Communist Party who is seeking asylum in the U.S. because his public statements about the Chinese government led to the arrest of his family members and the freezing of his assets.

Since he fled in 2014, Guo claims the Chinese government has gone to "extensive lengths" to have him extradited, including asking CEOs of large companies and venture capitalist Elliot Broidy to put pressure on President Donald Trump. He maintains the Chinese government is actively working to discredit him and he has sued multiple people for defamation alleging they falsely labeled him a spy, a fraud, a swindler and a rapist.

Woeful misgovernance: Train from Manchester to London can cost more than flights to New York

Helen Coffey
Independent
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC

Virgin Trains return tickets between Stockport and London can cost £350

The exorbitant cost of UK rail travel has been highlighted again after a passenger shared a picture of his return rail journey from Stockport to London, costing £287.10.

Editor and writer Ben Hoare posted a snap of the Virgin Trains ticket on Twitter with the caption: "Given how much my Stockport-Euston day return (booked a week ago) cost, is it any wonder this Virgin Train is half empty? Something's v wrong with our railways."

He added: "I think this shows trains are way too expensive and ticketing too complicated. The sad thing is, we invented railways."

Comment: With travel costs at such a ridiculously high level, people are obviously discouraged from traveling. One wonders if this is the intent.

More likely though, it's just a consequence of the rapidly-worsening incompetence of the British 'elite', who have droned on for centuries about how they're needed around the world because no one else knows how to effectively rule...

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Americans should be very skeptical of calls for new "terrorism" laws

Caitlin Johnstone
caitlinjohnstone.com
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:01 UTC

Two mass shootings have rocked the United States in less than 24 hours, leaving dozens dead and many more wounded. The first in El Paso, Texas was allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacist whose racist motives are outlined in a rambling "manifesto", the second allegedly by a self-described "leftist" whose motives, like the 2017 Las Vegas shooter, are presently unknown. These incidents occurred a week after another mass shooting in Gilroy, California.

All the usual US gun control debates have of course reignited, which is understandable. Alongside this debate, however, we are seeing another, far more pernicious agenda being raised that I would like to address here

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Massacre at Walmart in El Paso, Texas: Eyewitnesses Report Multiple Shooters - 'Lone Gunman' Narrative Inconsistencies

Sott.net
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:58 UTC

It looks like another organized mass shooting is taking place in the USA, this time in El Paso on the US-Mexico border - a location obviously ripe for provocation given Trump's border wall mandate and Democrats' 'holy grail' of gun control.

Details are still coming in, but we fully expect the initial reports of multiple gunmen to be whittled down in the official narrative to another 'lone gunman'...

No word yet on the number of dead, but dozens have been injured.

Here's RT:

At least 18 people have been shot at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, local media reports. Police are searching for possibly multiple shooters, while footage of victims and shocking accounts of witnesses have emerged.

One suspect has been placed in custody, El Paso police told local TV, adding that the search of the crime scene and its surroundings continues. Police confirmed "multiple" people have been killed but have so far refused to reveal the exact number or the victims' identities.

Several extremely graphic videos, purportedly taken at the scene, have emerged online. One shows at least three bodies lying outside the Walmart and in its parking lot. In another one, people are seen fleeing the store past a person lying on the floor in a large blood puddle.

Meanwhile a short clip of a man hiding under furniture while multiple shots are heard in the background has been making the rounds in the media.

French farmers dump manure outside politician's office protesting EU's trade deal with Canada

Barry Cassidy
Farmers Journal
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:00 UTC

French farmers protesting against the signing of a trade deal with Canada have dumped manure outside the offices of a member of the French National Assembly.

France's parliament recently approved the CETA trade deal between the EU and Canada.

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And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

Swedish municipality faces bankruptcy after taking too many migrants, asks for aid from national government

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:32 UTC

The Swedish municipality of Bengtsfors has petitioned the national government for aid due to massive costs incurred taking in more migrants than the municipality could afford.

Local Moderate Party politician Stig Bertilsson said the multi-page letter was clear in identifying the cause of the budget deficit as being related to the large number of "new Swedes" taken in and requested aid to cover the costs, SVT reports.

"Costs in municipalities that have received new arrivals have continued to be substantial even when government revenues have stopped. This creates a large negative hole in the municipal cash register," Bertilsson said.

When asked about tax revenues from new migrants that could bridge the deficit gap, Bertilsson said that in the long run he hoped there would be a rise in revenues but so far there has not been one, adding that the Swedish labour market "has a long way to go".

Unemployment figures for migrants in Sweden are in fact much higher than those for native Swedes, with a report last summer showing a 19.9 per cent unemployment rate for migrants compared to just 3.6 per cent for natives.

Comment: One of the reasons the Swedish tax system works as well as it does is that Swedes work hard, thus ensuring the supply of funds that can go toward social programs via taxes. One of the disadvantages is that those very programs act as an incentive for migrants who don't share the same cultural work ethic to abuse the system for free stuff. Without integration or proper migration control, the system is simply unsustainable.

German authorities infuriated as Munich Islamic Centre promotes beating of 'unruly' women

Tim Korso
Sputnik
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 19:26 UTC

Germany faced a major influx of migrants from the Middle East in 2015, which was subsequently followed by a rise in crime across the country and protests by Germans who have demanded changes to migration policies.

The Munich Islamic Centre (IZM) has faced a wave of criticism after controversial content on its website, namely recommendations to husbands on how to handle conflicts within their families, were highlighted by Bayerischer Rundfunk 24. A subsection on the website, titled Wife and Family, suggested, citing the Qur'an, that a husband can beat his "unruly" spouse, albeit only as a last resort after admonishing her and rejecting her in the bedroom.

According to Bayerischer Rundfunk 24, these recommendations have been instructing visitors to the website for the last 15 years. The outlet indicated that the German Muslim Community (DMG) had promised on behalf of the IZM to make amendments to certain sections of the centre's website back in March 2019, but ultimately failed to do so. The DMG explained the delay as being due to a variety factors, such as illness of those responsible for the site's content, but vowed to fix everything within two weeks.

The revelation by the German media outlet caused outrage among local politicians. A member of the city council and of the committee on integration, Cumali Naz from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), strongly condemned the recommendations provided by IZM.

Someone changed El Paso shooter's MyLife page from Democrat to Republican after his arrest

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:07 UTC

The Walmart-Cielo Vista Mall shooter in El Paso, Texas, was identified this afternoon as Patrick Crusius from Allen, Texas outside of Dallas.

Washington Examiner reporter Anna Giaritelli posted the name and a photos of the alleged shooter, sourced to law enforcement, "A law enforcement official in El Paso told me the Walmart shooter is in custody. Patrick Crusius of Dallas. Just turned 21 years old this week."

Patrick Crusius has a profile on MyLife.com.

MyLife is an American information brokerage founded in 2002 as Reunion.com. MyLife gathers personal information through public records and other sources to automatically generate a "MyLife Public Page" for each person, described by MyLife as a "complete Wikipedia-like biography on every American."

At 2:46 PM today MyLife had this profile for the deranged killer Patrick Crusius.

Comment: And the political polarization continues, seemingly confirming all the Left's worst fears about white supremacy. Moderates on both sides should do themselves a favor, calm down, and read Haidt and Lukianoff's book, Coddling of the American Mind. If they don't learn some lessons there or elsewhere, things will only get worse, which is precisely what some want to happen.

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At odds with conservative pessimism regarding free speech on campus

Greg Lukianoff
National Review
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 02:19 UTC

The problem may seem worse than ever, but progress has been made — and there's a real shot to make more.

At a recent conference, I talked to a young college graduate who dabbles in journalism and he said, rather offhandedly, "There's always good attention paid to stories about free speech on campus." This produced a hearty laugh from me, because the overwhelming interest in campus-speech issues is a recent development.

Indeed, over my first ten years at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (2001-11), we begged people to pay attention to the fact that it was shockingly easy to get in trouble for what you said on campus. It is real progress that now when I bring up free speech on campus, very few people ever say, "I didn't realize it was an issue." Yet even though the issue is more prominent in public conversation than it's ever been since the emergence of "political correctness" in the late '80s and early '90s, whenever I talk to conservatives, there is often a deep sense of pessimism about what can be done about campuses.

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Society's Child

Hello! Chelsea Manning is still in jail for 'crimes against the deep state'

Fake news fails again: CNN's parent company sued for $50mn by Chinese billionaire claiming defamation

Woeful misgovernance: Train from Manchester to London can cost more than flights to New York

Americans should be very skeptical of calls for new "terrorism" laws

Massacre at Walmart in El Paso, Texas: Eyewitnesses Report Multiple Shooters - 'Lone Gunman' Narrative Inconsistencies

French farmers dump manure outside politician's office protesting EU's trade deal with Canada

Swedish municipality faces bankruptcy after taking too many migrants, asks for aid from national government

German authorities infuriated as Munich Islamic Centre promotes beating of 'unruly' women

Someone changed El Paso shooter's MyLife page from Democrat to Republican after his arrest

At odds with conservative pessimism regarding free speech on campus

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