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Drone with grenades targets top Mexican security official


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:26 UTC
A grenade
© Jorge Lopez / Reuters
A grenade-laden, medium-sized drone has targeted the residence of the top security official of Mexico's Baja California state. Luckily for the residents, the explosives were deactivated and failed to detonate.

State police stationed at Gerardo Sosa Olachea's house in Tecate, Mexico, spotted two drones circling around the state public security minister's residence on Tuesday morning. One of the drones then fell on the terrace.

Once the officers rushed to the unmanned aerial vehicle they discovered two grenades duct-taped to it. The drone was also equipped with an audio and video system.
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Proposed GOP bill would make illegal border crossing a felony offense


Conservative Fighters
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:02 UTC
US border patrol agent
© Brandon Quester/inewsource
A U.S. Border Patrol agent stands next to the U.S.-Mexico border.
First time offenders who come into the U.S. illegally are generally charged with a misdemeanor - but a new bill aims to change that.

Legislation introduced by Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., Tuesday would make illegal entry into the U.S. a felony offense, something she said would act as a "disincentive" to people who are thinking of crossing the border.

"The United States government should never prioritize illegal immigrants over American citizens," Black said in a statement. "By no longer creating incentives to come to our country unlawfully, we also discourage families from sending their children on an often dangerous journey to reach our southern border."

A felony record would hinder an individual attempting to come into the U.S. legally as it would prevent that person from obtaining a green card, Black told Fox News.

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Not even the dead are left in peace: Israel prepares to hand over Muslim cemetery and East Jerusalem nature reserve to illegal settlers

Yumna Patel and Saleh Zghari
Mondoweiss
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:48 UTC
Mustafa Abu Zahra
© Saleh Zghari
Mustafa Abu Zahra, Head of the Committee for the Preservation of Islamic Cemeteries in Jerusalem
Just outside the walls of the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem, a years long demographic battle between the Israeli state and Palestinian residents of the city has found new life in recent weeks.

Right-wing settler NGO Elad, also known as the City of David Foundation, celebrated a win last week when the Interior and Environment Committee of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, advanced a bill that would allow for the construction of Jewish settlement housing to be built inside areas zoned for national parks within municipal boundaries.

The bill, which was introduced last year, proposed that settlement construction be allowed inside the boundaries of archaeological national parks where a "neighborhood" had existed before the park was declared, referring to conglomerates of Jewish settlers living on Palestinian land.
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Festival of hypocrisy: Selective spasms of immigration outrage are leading us nowhere

Joris De Draeck
Fort Russ News
Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:38 UTC
Migrantska kriza u BiH i dio aktivnosti mreže nevladinih udruga u EU
The public can get extremely outraged in a heartbeat. It only takes a coordinated press campaign and some touching pictures. It appears that showing images of children consequently works. It does so now with immigration as it did with Nayirah in Iraq, with Ghouta's Sarin, with Alan Kurdi in Bodrum with Omran Daqneesh in Aleppo (but not with the unnamed girl right of him) and it does again with "children in cages" now. It didn't with Abdullah Issa though. Nor with kids massacred in Yemen which is continuously being bombed with our approval; we just #dontlookaway, don't we? [all together: "Yes, We Do!"]


Comment: Nassim Taleb calls it pedophrasty.


We are led to be selective in our hate. Right and left's forces suddenly are summoned over and against each-other. They blame one-another over the topic at hand while all media write the same headlines as if controlled by an invisible conductor. The hypocrites. Both of them, and so are you are if you're blaming Trump solely because of these cages.

The immigration, "zero tolerance" problem is not a new one. It's been going on for a decade if not longer. Mostly leftist or centrist forces - as some, laughably, would like to refer to Obama's reign - are genuinely mad. In a way they are right of course. We should not live in a world where kids get separated from their parents while fleeing. We live in a globalized world for all these in charge so why fight the same rules when humans are involved and want to relocate on this planet?
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US senator says Mail.ru might be the next 'Cambridge Analytica scandal'

Olga Karelina, translation by Kevin Rothrock
Meduza
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
mail.ru entrance moscow
© Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA
The front entrance to Mail.ru’s office in Moscow.
Until 2015, several applications developed for Facebook by third-party companies had access to personal information shared by users and their friends. The apps could see names, genders, birth dates, places of birth, photos, and "liked" posts and pages. One of the businesses that collaborated with Facebook like this was the Russian company Mail.ru.

In May 2015, Facebook prohibited third-party applications from collecting information about users' friends, but 61 companies - including Mail.ru - enjoyed continued access to this data for a limited time. Facebook acknowledged this in a new report submitted to the U.S. Senate, as part of an investigation launched after revelations that the British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica acquired and used personal data about millions of Facebook users.

Comment: So there's another nothingburger Cambridge Analytica type scandal on the horizon. If people don't know by now that they have absolutely no control over their data when using things like Facebook, Google, Amazon or whatever else, then they really haven't been paying attention. But the fact that this brewing scandal has a tentative connection to master arch-villain Putin himself makes it all the more tantalizing.

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Dollars

Hundreds of FBI agents took bribes from MSM; Wray looks the other way to protect media partners


True Pundit
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:01 UTC
Christopher Wray
Access to the FBI is for sale.

Concert tickets. Expensive private dinners. NFL tickets. Parties on booze cruises. Discounts on travel.

FBI insiders said more than 60 agents in D.C. alone have been nailed for taking gifts from the news media. Inspector General Michael Horowitz said earlier this week about 50 FBI agents took 300 free gifts from news media.

However, Horowitz failed to stipulate that number is ONLY in Washington D.C. which covers one field office and FBI headquarters. The Inspector General did not examine the FBI's other field offices, officials said. And the problem of taking free gifts for Intel is rampant, officials said.

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'Unmasking Antifa Act' legislation includes 15-year prison term proposal

Emily Birnbaum
The Hill
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 01:02 UTC
antifa
© Jason Connolly/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
The "Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018," legislation introduced in the House, carries a potential 15-year prison sentence for those caught engaging in behaviors typically associated with the "antifa" movement of anti-fascist activists.

Under the act, anyone "wearing a mask" or in disguise who "injures, oppresses, threatens, or intimidates any person ... in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege" would be subject to a fine or up to 15 years in prison.

The bill was introduced in the House last month but received renewed attention on Tuesday after alt-right personality Mike Cernovich encouraged his followers to call their representatives and "let them know what you think" about the legislation.

Comment: There are still a ways to go before the bill becomes law, if it even gets passed at all. In the meantime, one can expect more of Antifa to play their part in the coming midterm elections. See also:

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Stormy Daniels arrested at strip club for fondling customers, lawyer says 'it's a setup'


AFP News
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
Stormy Daniels and Lawyer

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels -- shown here speaking outside a US federal court in New York with her lawyer Michael Avenatti in April -- was arrested at a strip club in Ohio.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who is locked in a court battle with President Donald Trump over their alleged affair, was arrested late Wednesday while performing at a strip club after allegedly "fondling" patrons, police said.

In what her lawyer dubbed a "politically motivated" set-up, Daniels was arrested without incident at the Sirens club in Columbus, Ohio after officers accused her of knowingly touching club patrons "in a specified anatomical area."

According to an incident report published online by a local news outlet, two police detectives and an officer approached Daniels, who was topless and wearing a G-string, onstage after she was seen "using her bare breasts to smack the patrons" and "fondling the breasts of the female patrons."

Comment: While it's perhaps morally dubious, this sounds like pretty standard behavior in a strip club, whether it's illegal in Ohio or not. It seems likely that Avenatti is right about the arrest being politically motivated. There's no doubt the Trump team would like nothing more than for the Daniels debacle to disappear, regardless of how frivolous the whole thing is.

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Fire

Belfast's Eleventh Night celebration marked by bonfires, a bus hijacking and petrol bombs


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:00 UTC
eleventh night bonfire
Towering bonfires decked out in Irish and EU flags were set ablaze across Belfast, Northern Ireland as Eleventh Night saw cars burned out, a bus hijack and a pipe bomb incident.

The bonfire night takes place on the eve of July 12, also known as Orangemen's Day, which marks Protestant William of Orange's victory over Catholic King James in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Large bonfires are constructed around Northern Ireland in the weeks leading up to the 11th, with police on high alert to remove the largest stacks of wooden pallets before they are lit.

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Propaganda

Monty Python's John Cleese announces he'll leave UK due to 'lying British press'

Omar Baggili
RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:31 UTC
John Cleese
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
British actor John Cleese at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 16, 2017
Actor and comedian John Cleese has declared he will leave the UK later this year due to the "lying and triviality" of the British press - ranked the least trustworthy among 33 European nations.

Cleese appeared on BBC Newsnight on Tuesday to express his frustration at the current state of Britain. While exasperated at the level of debate on Brexit, he more pointedly stated that his "particular beef" was with the British press.

The 78 year old, a long-time Liberal Democrat supporter who voted leave in the 2016 EU Referendum, came armed with a clipboard and chart to highlight the research carried out by the EU each year on the trust level, in the printed media by its citizens.

Comment: Here is the full segment on BBC Newsnight:



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