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Passenger jet veers off runway and splits into pieces in Istanbul - 1 dead, 157 injured


RT
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:43 UTC
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© Getty Images / Anadolu Agency/ Handout / Istanbul Security Directorate
A passenger plane has overrun runway at Sabiha Gokcen airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Apparent footage from the scene shows the aircraft broken into two pieces with flames emitting from its fuselage.

The incident occurred at the international airport on Wednesday. The domestic flight from Izmir overran the runway during landing, according to local media reports.

Footage from the scene shows the plane, belonging to the low-cost Turkish airline Pegasus, broken into several pieces with flames coming from its fuselage.

Comment: A number of similar incidents have occurred in the last year:

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Twitter says it'll censor deepfakes, cheapfakes and basically anything else it wants to ahead of the 2020 election

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:09 UTC
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Just days after banning Zero Hedge, Twitter has announced it'll also be implementing new rules to address deepfakes and "other forms of synthetic and manipulated media" as we head closer to the 2020 election.

Because we can't have a repeat of 2016, right?

The company said it is going to not allow users to "deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm," according to CNBC. The rules go into effect after March 5 this year, where the company will now label some Tweets containing synthetic or manipulated media.

Social media can, and will, have a profound effect on the state of the election heading into November this year. Altered media often shows up, with candidates words sometimes parroted or mocked in certain ads that seek to undermine them. Lawmakers have been trying to figure out a way to hold social media companies accountable for the spread of misinformation.

According to CNBC, last month the "House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce held a hearing where experts shared warnings of both deepfakes and potential over-regulation of tech platforms that host them."

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

The pornification of America: How young girls are being groomed by sexual predators

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:45 UTC
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© gettyimages / Fairfax Media
"The brutal reality is that a predator doesn't have to be in the same room, building, or even country to abuse a child. And that's what they're doing — subjecting children to psychological and sexual abuse." — "I'm a 37-Year-Old Mom & I Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl. Here's What I Learned," Medium
What can we do to protect America's young people from sexual predators?

That's the question I keep getting asked by people who, having read my article on the growing danger of young boys and girls (some as young as 9 years old) being bought and sold for sex, want to do something proactive to stop these monsters in their tracks.

It is estimated that the number of children who are at risk of being trafficked or have already been sold into the sex trade would fill 1300 school buses.

While those who seek to buy young children for sex come from all backgrounds, races, ages and work forces, they do have one thing in common: 99% of them are men.

This is not a problem with an easy fix.

Comment: See also:

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Leftists blame Russian bots for fallout from Iowa caucus shambles

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
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Trump proven right.

Some leftists are blaming "Russian propaganda accounts" for the embarrassing fallout from the Iowa caucus, fulfilling a prediction by President Trump that they would do precisely that.

The results from last night's caucus were delayed to to a "reporting issue" related to an app called Shadow, the owner of which Tara McGowan is a Mayor Pete Buttigieg supporter and is married to one of his advisers.

Buttigieg declared victory last night despite internal polling showing he had lost to Bernie Sanders.

This prompted the hashtag #MayorCheat to trend on Twitter and that in turn prompted numerous hysterical Buttigieg supporters to claim the hashtag was a creation of Russian-controlled bots.

"When will the Democrats start blaming RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, instead of their own incompetence for the voting disaster that just happened in the Great State of Iowa?" asked President Trump in a tweet.

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Ex-LA County Sheriff Lee Baca begins serving Federal prison time


NBC Los Angeles
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 22:07 UTC
Lee Baca
© AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
In this March 15, 2017, file photo, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca takes questions from the media as he leaves federal court in Los Angeles. Baca is being sentenced Friday, May 12, 2017, for obstructing a federal investigation into abuses and corruption in the nation’s largest jail system.
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was behind bars at a federal prison in Texas Wednesday, serving a three-year federal prison sentence for obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI.

The 77-year-old former sheriff, who has Alzheimer's disease, was sentenced in May 2017, but had remained free pending appeal.

Last month, however, U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson issued an order directing Baca to surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on or before Feb. 5 -- Wednesday. The date marked the 21st day after the issuance of the mandate filed by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 15.
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'Why are you voting for Putin?' Gabbard supporters report harassment at Iowa caucuses


RT
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:51 UTC
Gabbard sign
© Reuters/Rick Wilking
There's a metaphor here...
A Tulsi Gabbard supporter was physically attacked with a Sharpie marker and called a Russian terrorist after voicing support for the candidate at an Iowa caucus, one of several reports of Gabbard supporters being "abused."

Caucusing for the Hawaii congresswoman can be hazardous to one's health, if reports from Monday's botched vote in Iowa are any indication. Journalist Dack Rouleau accidentally triggered a supporter of billionaire candidate Tom Steyer into a full-on Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation culminating in physical attack when he casually mentioned that he would be voting for Gabbard.

Comment: The writing is 'on the hand', for now. Soon it will be all over the wall. The Dems are a bonafide disaster (where Hillary wants them?). You can almost smell it comin' in the air - savior Clinton arising from the deep. Is she behind these blatant attacks on Gabbard supporters, considering that pesky little lawsuit she's been dodging lately?

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Chinese Grand Prix race in doubt as Shanghai suspends all sporting events in face of coronavirus epidemic


Times of India
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:00 UTC
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© Assetto Corsa/Youtube
Jiading, in northwestern Shanghai, is home to the city’s F1 track
Shanghai sports authorities have recommended the suspension of all sporting events in the city due to the coronavirus outbreak, casting further doubt on whether the Chinese Grand Prix will take place.

The fourth grand prix of the season is scheduled for April 19 in Shanghai and the viability of the race will be discussed by Formula One bosses this week amid speculation it could join the growing list of sports events already postponed or cancelled.

The Shanghai Sports General Association, in a notice on Wednesday, instructed all sporting bodies to suspend sport events until the threat is over and "formulate a plan for epidemic prevention to avoid internal infections".
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Documentary: The irreparable damage Soros NGOs inflicted on Russia's school curricula

Alexey Komov
Russian Faith
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:23 UTC
Soros

George Soros
"A large influence on the new education curriculum was brought by NGOs related to George Soros. It is no surprise that there have been numerous attempts to smuggle so called "sexuality lessons"

The following film, Lessons of Standardization, was created by Komov, Ambassador of the World Congress of Families to the U.N., and his wife Irina Shamolina (photo below), who together have been pioneering homeschooling in Russia, making use of tested home schooling methods in the U.S.

A transcript of the video is included below.

Comment: The pernicious influence of "education reform" has not gone unnoticed in America. The backlash from the State has been severe:

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Yellow Vest

France's most inventive forms of protest: Liberté, égalité... créativité!


RT
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:49 UTC
yellow vest protests creative
© Ruptly / Bertrand GUAY - AFP / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN - AFP
Ever since the yellow vest protests kicked off in 2018, the French government has been besieged by weekly, increasingly creative protests as the populace expresses its fury with flair.

The pension reform protests followed, set into motion by President Emmanuel Macron's attempts to consolidate 42 separate pension schemes into a singular, points-based plan. Over the past several months, everyone from hospital and transport workers to teachers, lawyers, and firefighters have taken to the streets across France to protect their pensions and their futures in ever-more creative ways.

Comment: Note the lack of Western media coverage or grudging biased mention of the protests, despite the fact that France is a key part of the West:

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Bad Guys

Registered sex offender priests find homes in alternative ministries

Li Cohen
CBS News
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:34 UTC
James Forsythe
© Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Father James Forsythe is a registered sex offender for attempted indecent liberties with a child when he was a Roman Catholic priest in Kansas.
Father Jamie Forsythe has always felt his purpose was to be a priest. He pursued that calling even after he pleaded guilty in 1989 to a charge of attempting to take indecent liberties with a 15-year-old boy in Kansas, serving time in prison, and being laicized — officially removed from the priesthood — by the Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City.

Forsythe, then in his 30s, was released from prison after less than four months of his one-to-five-year sentence, and eventually found work at Metropolitan Community Church of the Black Hills, a progressive Christian church in South Dakota that primarily serves LGBTQ worshippers. Forsythe was ordained within the Metropolitan Community Church denomination in 1996, according to the Rapid City Journal, and began working at the Black Hills church in January 2000. But when the congregation discovered in 2002 he had failed to register as a sex offender in the state, he resigned from his post and made his way to Wilton Manors, Florida.
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