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Israeli Major General Yoav Mordechai threatens bus companies 'and their families' who transport Gaza protesters

Middle East Monitor
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:05 UTC

The Israeli military has threatened Palestinian bus companies in the occupied Gaza Strip, ahead of a planned protest tomorrow to mark Land Day.

Yesterday evening, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Major General Yoav Mordechai warned the transportation companies not to bus protesters to the fence.

"Anyone who approaches the border is endangering his life. From my point of view, if bus companies you own take some of the protestors and bring them to the border, you and your families will be held personally responsible," Mordechai declared.

Yulia Skripal reportedly 'improving rapidly', no longer in critical condition

RT
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:50 UTC

Yulia Skripal, daughter of ex-Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, is no longer in a critical condition after she and her father were attacked with a deadly nerve agent. She is understood to be "improving rapidly."

Four weeks after the Salisbury poisoning, Yulia's condition appears to be finally improving. The good news comes only one day after detectives revealed to the public that the Skripals appear to have been attacked in their own home, as the highest concentration of chemicals was found by experts on the front door of their house on Christie Miller Road.

Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon told the media on Wednesday that detectives will now focus their efforts on the Salisbury home.

Comment: Interesting that news of the Skripal's condition is finally given just after friends and relatives contact the media to complain that they have been denied visits: UK government refuses to give information about Sergei Skripal to his Russian family: 'We don't even know where he is'

Moscow and Riyadh negotiating deal to give them long-term control over oil prices

RT
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:58 UTC

Moscow and Riyadh, backed by OPEC, are negotiating a deal that would allow them long-term control of oil prices. If successful, Russia and Saudi Arabia would manage oil markets for the next two decades.

At the moment, Russia and OPEC are signing agreements on oil production cuts on a yearly basis. However, the next deal could be much longer.

"We are looking for a very long-term cooperation between OPEC and non-OPEC producing countries," OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo said on Wednesday.

Tory supporter posts 'joke' Corbyn death threat, Facebook leaves it up - 'doesn't go against standards'

RT
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:47 UTC

Facebook has refused to take down a post calling for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to be assassinated. The threat was posted on a Tory-supporting Facebook page, Evolve Politics reports.

The post from the page 'Conservative memes for Tory Teens' reads: "I think we should order hits on Russia's spies," before going on to say "let's start with Jeremy Corbyn."

Evolve Politics signaled the post to Facebook, which got back to them with a generic message saying the post does not contravene its 'Community Standards.'

The post had already been reported to the police and the social media giant, but was not removed. When one user commented that the post had been reported to authorities, one administrator dismissively said: "It was just a joke, chill."

He then added: "Why do you hate freedom of speech?" - to which the original commentator said: "Free speech is great as long as it is not advocating violence. When it does advocate violence it breaks the law. Anyway must be nearly your bedtime. Nite nite."

Comment: A great example of how idiotic government lies filter down to become beliefs in the minds of ordinary idiots. Corbyn may be a leftist, but he's no Russian spy. But then again, anyone with common sense on any issue must be a Russian spy. Why else would a guy like Corbyn challenge Theresa May's insane Russophobia? Only traitors stand up for common sense and rational diplomacy when the official policy is to be batshit crazy.

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68 killed in jail riot and fire at Venezuela police station

RT
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:33 UTC

© Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters
Relatives of inmates held at the General Command of the Carabobo Police react as they wait outside the prison in Valencia, Venezuela March 28, 2018.

At least 68 people have been killed at a Venezuela police station, where an apparent riot and escape attempt resulted in a fire. The casualties have been confirmed by the country's prosecutor general.

The fire took place in the General Command of the Carabobo Police in the city of Valencia. After the fire, dozens of relatives gathered outside the station, trying to break in to get answers, reportedly forcing police to intervene.

Venezuela Prosecutor General Tarek William Saab has confirmed the incident in a series of tweets, saying 68 people were killed in "a presumed fire," including 66 men and two female visitors. He said four special prosecutors have been appointed to investigate the incident.

Enough with the extremist rhetoric: Tucker Carlson takes aim at David Hogg and those using him to push gun control agenda

Cillian Zeal
Conservative Tribune
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:19 UTC

In the wake of the Parkland shooting, the left has waged a proxy war on guns. And they've done so with child soldiers.

The most prominent of these has been David Hogg. If you've been anywhere near a TV, computer, smartphone or newspaper these past few weeks, you've undoubtedly seen Hogg, whose only compelling argument is that he survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and that you need to listen to him.

Whenever someone calls Hogg out on the fact that being a shooting survivor does not make one an expert on constitutional law, gun policy, school security, or really anything other than your own experience, they're called insensitive - almost as if the left is hiding behind these child soldiers, using them as human shields.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has had enough of this line of thinking.

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Has Sibel Edmonds gone off the deep end? Newsbud editor attacks 21st Century Wire, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:31 UTC

Sibel Deniz Edmonds is the founder and editor-in-chief of NewsBud

James Corbett looks into the controversy surrounding Sibel Edmonds, Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett regarding their reporting on the Syrian conflict. He fact checks Newsbud's recent Syria Under Siege video and comes to some unfortunate conclusions.

UK male suicide rate 'a stain on our society' - 84 men take their lives per week

Claire Gilbody-Dickerson
RT
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:55 UTC

Britain's strategy to tackle male suicide is an "absolute lottery" as it does barely anything to stop 84 men from committing suicide every week, a campaigner told RT.

Amid reports of the UK seeing a male suicide every two hours, Simon Gunning, CEO of Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), said the staggering rates are the "clearest indicator that we are doing very badly in certain areas."

"The issue is there are 84 men a week who choose a permanent solution to temporary problems," Gunning said. "Unable to see hope, they think death is better than life."

Overall, suicide claims the lives of 6,000 people in the UK, the majority of whom (75 percent) are male. It has prompted CALM to launch Project84, a campaign aimed at raising awareness about suicide in the country.

Dystopian policing: China using facial recognition to identify and fine jaywalkers

Fast Company
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC

Traffic authorities in the Chinese city of Shenzhen have teamed up with an AI firm named Intellifusion to carry out the rather dystopian policing, reports the South China Morning Post. Already traffic police in the city have been using Intellifusion software and cameras to identify passing jaywalkers and project their faces and identifying information on large screens located near intersections for all to see, but now Intellifusion is taking its surveillance a step further.

The company is partnering with social media platforms including WeChat and Sina Weibo and local mobile phone carriers so it can text jaywalkers the second they offend. Police will also have the option of delivering a ticket and fine on the spot for people who are picked up by the AI system for repeat offenses.

FSB tells internet messengers to give up clients' correspondence within 10 days of receiving official request

RT
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:43 UTC

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has ordered data exchange services such as internet messengers to give up the encryption keys for their clients' correspondence within 10 days of receiving an official request.

The document published on the Russian government's official web portal on Thursday expands the earlier order for all "organizers of information distribution on the internet network" to present encryption keys if requested by the relevant FSB directorate.

The order was issued after earlier this month Russia's Supreme Court demanded that popular messenger and blogging platform Telegram hand over encryption keys to its clients' traffic to the FSB without court warrants.

As they announced the ruling, judges reiterated that the constitutional right to secrecy of correspondence should not be extended to internet messages, as there was no way to ensure that the staff of internet companies had no access to user data.

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Society's Child

Israeli Major General Yoav Mordechai threatens bus companies 'and their families' who transport Gaza protesters

Yulia Skripal reportedly 'improving rapidly', no longer in critical condition

Moscow and Riyadh negotiating deal to give them long-term control over oil prices

Tory supporter posts 'joke' Corbyn death threat, Facebook leaves it up - 'doesn't go against standards'

68 killed in jail riot and fire at Venezuela police station

Enough with the extremist rhetoric: Tucker Carlson takes aim at David Hogg and those using him to push gun control agenda

Has Sibel Edmonds gone off the deep end? Newsbud editor attacks 21st Century Wire, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley

UK male suicide rate 'a stain on our society' - 84 men take their lives per week

Dystopian policing: China using facial recognition to identify and fine jaywalkers

FSB tells internet messengers to give up clients' correspondence within 10 days of receiving official request

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