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Why should we care about Kim Dotcom's possible extradition to the US?


RT
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 22:03 UTC
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Kim Dotcom
The founder of file-sharing service Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, has entered the final appeal battle to try and challenge his extradition to the US, where he faces decades behind bars for copyright infringement charges.

The appeal hearings kicked off in New Zealand's Supreme Court on Monday. If the appeal fails, it will be up to the country's interior minister to decide whether to actually greenlight the extradition.

Dotcom has resided in New Zealand since 2010 and the US case against the Megaupload founder has resulted in a lengthy extradition battle. While it was greenlighted in 2015, it has been repeatedly appealed in various courts since then, ultimately getting to the top judiciary.

Comment: One might wonder if the war against Kim Dotcom has more to do with his political views, especially in support of Julian Assange, as any purported copyright infringement or wire fraud. As the one tweeter expressed it, if Megaupload loses its case, Google and Youtube should be up for much the same charges.

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Gear

Helicopter crashes into New York City's Hudson River - pilot survives

Graham Rapier
Business Insider
Wed, 15 May 2019 16:17 UTC
Helicopter crashes into Hudson River
© CNN
A helicopter has crashed into the Hudson River in New York City, the New York City Fire Department confirmed Wednesday afternoon.

A spokesperson for the FDNY confirmed the crash and said the pilot, the only person on board, was safely removed from the water with no injuries. The department's verified Twitter account said there were two other non-life-threatening injuries.

Video taken by an onlooker shows the helicopter spinning and flying erratically before crashing into the river.


New York Waterway, a company that operates ferries between Manhattan and New Jersey, said in a press release that one of its boats rescued the pilot of the helicopter. The company also assisted with rescue efforts when a US Airways plane famously landed in the Hudson River in 2009.

Comment: Additional footage was recorded by another bystander and reported by ABC News:



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Stock Down

The great American economic growth myth is the ground for socialism's rise

Lance Roberts
Real Investment Advice
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:56 UTC
economic growth cartoon
© polyp.org.uk
There is little denying the rise of "socialistic" ideas in the U.S. today. You can try and cover the stench by calling it "social democracy" but in the end, it's still socialism.

Since 1775, millions of Americans have given their lives in defense of the American "idea." The tyranny and oppression which arise from communism, socialism, and dictatorships have been a threat worthy of such sacrifice. I am sure those patriots who died to ensure the "American way of life" would be disheartened by the willingness of the up and coming generations adopt such ideals.

But such shouldn't be a surprise. It is the cycle of all economic civilizations over time as we "forget our history" and become doomed to repeat. it.
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Pistol

Yeah nah, mate! New Zealanders ignore nationwide gun confiscation program

Leesa K. Donner
Liberty Nation
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 21:22 UTC
New Zealand guns
New Zealand politicians who rushed to enact nationwide gun confiscation following the Christchurch mosque massacres are befuddled by the lack of enthusiasm from citizens who have yet to comply with the new law. The so-called "gun reform" was expected to rid the vast New Zealand countryside of most semi-automatic firearms, magazines over a specified limit, and shotguns.

Two months ago, Reuters breathlessly reported, "New Zealand police expect tens of thousands of firearms to be surrendered by a guns buy-back scheme." Law enforcement authorities averred that "it could be more." Pregnant with the expectation that gun owners would trade their firearms for cash, the political class is nonplussed by the results.

Only 530 guns have thus far been turned in to the authorities.
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Bad Guys

The campaign to let kids, inmates vote just another sign the Left has completely lost it

Karol Markowicz
New York Post
Sun, 09 Jun 2019 20:36 UTC
voting
© Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse
What happens when Democrats lose an election they were sure they were going to win? Time to rearrange the entirety of the American electoral system! Democrats are seeking to expand voting rights to, well, just about everyone - until they get their desired result.

The new hotness is lowering the voting age to 16 years old - as proposed in the House bill HR 1, the For the People Act of 2019.

I've written in these pages about the arbitrary points of adulthood in America: 18 to join the military, 21 to drink, but if you get accused of a crime, you can be tried as an adult at 13. We shouldn't add another layer of arbitrariness by giving 16-year-olds the right to vote.

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Life Preserver

Disputed Da Vinci painting shows up on Saudi crown prince's superyacht


RT
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:07 UTC
salvator mundi
© AFP / Tolga Akmen
A Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, bought for a cool $450 million in 2017, allegedly on behalf of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has turned up on a massive yacht owned by the prince himself.

The mysterious auction was conducted by telephone and Christie's didn't confirm the buyer's identity - but later, the 'Salvator Mundi' was "whisked away in the middle of the night on MBS' plane" and relocated to his yacht, the Serene, two unnamed sources told the website Artnet.com.

The sources also said that the painting had been paid for, despite rumors circulating in the art world that the bill had only been partially settled.

Comment: It's unlikely the owner knows or cares about any potential historical value of the painting and, like many things to the elite, it's merely an asset to be flaunted.

For more on Da Vinci, check out:

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Fire

Refugee sets himself ablaze at Australian-run detention center


SBS News
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC
felled inmate
© Supplied/Shamindan Kanapadhi
A Somali refugee is tended to by authorities.
A refugee on Manus Island has set himself on fire, marking the latest in a rapidly rising number of suicide and self-harm attempts at the former site of the Australian-run detention centre.

The Somalian man, aged about 30, set himself on fire while in the East Lorengau camp on Monday, sources on Manus Island say.

The blaze was quickly extinguished.

Images posted to social media by another refugee show the "highly depressed" man, with burns to his upper body, lying on the floor coated in white fire-fighting chemical powder.
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Bizarro Earth

Morrissey hasn't turned right: He only highlights how our establishment has turned insane

Charlie Nash
The Spectator
Sun, 02 Jun 2019 19:57 UTC
singer morrissey
© Karl Walter/Getty
Morrisey
Did the former Smiths frontman ever stop being a provocateur?

On Thursday, May 30, Morrissey was 'canceled'. According to the Guardian, a British newspaper fond of such decrees, fans now feel 'betrayed' by the singer's recent controversial and provocative statements, which have included support for Anne Marie Waters's nationalist For Britain party.

'Morissey [sic], what happened?' the Guardian agonized on Twitter. But maybe they already know the answer. In just a decade, political correctness has obtained a stranglehold on Western culture. The provocateurs and counter-cultural icons of the late 20th century have been replaced by commercially compromised 'influencers', and artists who are carefully selected by social censors.

If William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, or Anton LaVey were still alive, the current public would be under orders to despise them too.

Comment: Morrissey isn't afraid to speak out about any situation:

British singer Morrissey sexually assaulted by TSA agent at San Francisco airport

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Bad Guys

Helicopter crash-lands on roof of Manhattan building - one dead


RT
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:45 UTC
Manhatten building
© Reuters / Brendan McDermid
A view of 787 7th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, on June 10, 2019.
One person has died after a helicopter crash-landed onto the roof of a midtown Manhattan building and caught fire, New York Fire Department officials have confirmed.

The helicopter crashed into a 54-story office building on New York's 7th avenue, north of the Theater District and Times Square, just before 2pm.

Comment: Footage of the helicopter nosediving was filmed and posted on

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Pills

Teens in Arizona school arrested for fentanyl opiods worth more than $30 million


News4 San Antonio
Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
fentanyl
Police in San Luis, Arizona arrested three students Wednesday at summer school for allegedly having more than 3,000 potentially deadly pills.

"Even half a pill can kill someone," said Lieutenant Marco Santana with the San Luis police. "It's happened before. We've had about 19 overdoses just this year alone. We've had about 16 in 2018 it's obviously a very dangerous drug and there's no control."

Authorities identified Noemi Hernandez Madrigal and Alexandra Hernandez as the two female students involved. They will be tried as adults. The third student, not being identified because he will be tried a minor.

Santana said each pill costs $15 on the black market so the school bust is worth more than $30 million on the street.

"You're looking at about 3200 plus m30 pills that were in her possession," Santana said.
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