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What Assange judge, Vanessa Baraitser thought about the CIA's plot to kill or abduct him

Joe Lauria
Consortium News
Sat, 16 Oct 2021 15:35 UTC

In her ruling in January against extraditing the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser expressed a high degree of understanding for the CIA wanting to rub out Assange.

Lawyers for Julian Assange may try at the U.S. appeal hearing later this month to introduce weightier evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency seriously discussed killing or abducting the imprisoned journalist.

The lower court hearing before Judge Vanessa Baraitser in September last year already heard sworn testimony from a former partner and former employee of the Spanish security company UC Global that a U.S. intelligence agency had talked about poisoning or kidnapping Assange. This testimony is already evidence in the case.

In the wake of the Yahoo! News report in which that testimony was confirmed and substantially expanded, Assange's lawyers may want to submit details from that report to demonstrate that fears of abduction and murder haunted Assange, leaving him in a mental state so fragile that Baraitser ruled against sending him to the U.S. — and possibly to an American dungeon where he'd be likely to take his life even before he got there.

Comment: Besides evidence of the FBI's plot to get rid of Assange, one way or another, there is the not inconsiderable matter of the fact that their chief witness for the "hacking" charges against him has turned out to be a criminal and a pedophile. Will that be allowed to have any bearing on the matter?

More on Baraitser's gross mishandling (or perhaps not?) on Assange's case.

Facebook to hire 10,000 'right people' in EU to realize its vision of 'metaverse'

RT
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:32 UTC

Facebook has announced a massive recruitment drive in the EU, with plans to hire 10,000 people in the next five years to help build its 'metaverse,' an interconnected virtual world where people would play, work and shop.

"As we begin the journey of bringing the metaverse to life, the need for highly specialized engineers is one of Facebook's most pressing priorities," the US tech giant said in a blog post on Sunday. The EU is the perfect place to look for such skilled employees, as "European talent is world-leading," it added.

"Europe is hugely important to Facebook," the company insisted, saying that it's going to work with governments within the bloc to "find the right people and the right markets to take this forward."

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Stripped of choice: Vienna museums open OnlyFans account after being fed up with other social media censoring their nude art

RT
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 10:32 UTC

The Vienna Tourist Board has just opened an account on OnlyFans, saying that the platform, mainly known for adult content, remained the only place where nude artworks from the city's museums could get "the freedom they deserve."

The Austrian capital is "home to some of the world's most famous artworks, many containing nudity. The most prominent social networks have policies in place that ban or censor such works," the tourist board explained.

"With our OnlyFans account, we want to give these artworks the freedom they deserve - including on social media."

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Dunkin Donuts runs out of donuts amid supply chain disruptions in Baltimore

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:34 UTC

© Twitter
A photo posted on Thursday to Twitter showed a Baltimore location of Dunkin Donuts with a sign saying that they were temporarily out of donuts, and they are probably not the only one.

A photo posted on Thursday to Twitter showed a Baltimore location of Dunkin Donuts with a sign saying that they were temporarily out of donuts, and they are probably not the only one.

The photo shown in this article's image shows the sign, which reads "We apologize, but due to supply chain issues, we do not have donuts today," followed by "Please try our wonderful bagels and muffins."

As supply-chain issues only continue to worsen nationwide, many stores are constantly reporting shortages of what they had once considered to be basic items.

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Michigan elementary schools cancel Halloween and Valentines Day to be 'equitable and inclusive'

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Fri, 15 Oct 2021 16:13 UTC

Michigan elementary schools are cancelling Halloween and Valentine's Day celebrations in order to be more "equitable and inclusive." Halloween and Valentine's Day are both Christian holidays that have been secularized.

Elementary school principals in East Lansing Michigan sent a joint letter to families on Wednesday announcing the cancellation of the two holidays due to financial disparities among families, according to MSN.

"It's not uncommon to see students crying on Halloween because they don't have the same kind of costumes that other kids have or they didn't bring the same amazing valentines that other kids do," Assistant Superintendent Glenn Mitcham said.

Comment: As Matt Walsh says:

"But what you see here is this idea that we have to be inclusive. But every time we hear about inclusiveness, we're getting rid of things, rather than actually including things. We're not including people in celebrations, we're just erasing them, erasing the things that people enjoy doing, that's the way it always works with politically correct culture with inclusiveness as its always a negative...

"But look, they also say, 'Hey, you know, we, can't have this holiday because some people don't celebrate it. And that's when you get out into the world, people are doing things and celebrating things that maybe you're not a part of. Isn't this also where tolerance comes into play? Maybe you need to learn to be tolerant of these celebrations that you're not a part of."

Passengers do nothing as woman is raped on Philadelphia train, cops say

Eileen AJ Connelly
New York Post
Sat, 16 Oct 2021 07:20 UTC

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A woman was raped on a SEPTA train on Oct. 13, 2021 while fellow passengers did nothing to help, police said.

A homeless man raped a woman this week on a commuter train in suburban Philadelphia in full view of other passengers -who cops said didn't lift a finger to help, or even dial 911, reports said.

The attack at around 10 p.m. Wednesday was captured on surveillance video that showed other people in the train car, according to Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt of the Upper Darby Police Department.

"Were they watching? I don't know. Again, we're still going through the video but there was a lot of people, in my opinion, that should've intervened. Somebody should've done something.," Bernhardt said, Philadelphia's CBS-3 reported.

"It speaks to where we are in society; I mean, who would allow something like that to take place? So it's troubling."

Bernhardt said it was a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority employee who called the cops to report that "something wasn't right" with a woman aboard the train.

SEPTA police waiting at the next stop were able to "apprehend the suspect in the act," an agency spokesman said in a statement, according to NBC-10 Philadelphia.

Comment: This terrible incident speaks about the abnormal state of our authoritarian society. People have become scared emotionless zombies, and they don't have the courage to do what is right.

The psychopathic society taught them to be obedient puppets and to do merely what they are told.
Humans have become robots that can't act or think on their own.

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'People would scream for hours': Former inmates detail torture in Russian prison

Sania Yusupova
RFE/RL
Sun, 17 Oct 2021 13:42 UTC

Police and inmates are seen outside maximum security IK-15 near Angarsk in April 2020 when a mass uprising of prisoners occurred. Since that time, activists and prisoners' relatives have said that hundreds of prisoners were tortured to extract confessions of organizing the riot.

Earlier this month, the nongovernmental Gulagu.net -- which tracks human rights abuses by Russian police and in Russian prisons -- disclosed the existence of more than 40 gigabytes of video material graphically documenting beatings, rape, and torture of inmates in prisons and pretrial detention centers.

Within hours of the story breaking, the Federal Prison Service (FSIN) announced it had fired the head of the prison service in the Saratov region, as well as several other top prison officials there. FSIN announced it was investigating the torture videos, which were allegedly shot in prisons and detention centers in the Irkutsk, Vladimir, and Saratov regions between 2018 and 2020.

(Because of the graphic nature of the videos, RFE/RL has decided not to post them or to link to other sites that have done so.)

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Word "spooky" banned by National Theatre over absurd claim it's racist

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 10:47 UTC

The National Theatre of Scotland has banned the word "spooky" over its "racial connotations" despite nobody complaining and despite there being no record of it ever being used as a racial slur in the United Kingdom.

Yes, really.

"A source at the Scottish theatre told the Daily Record that no one has complained about the term "spooky" but they were concerned the word could become problematic in the future," reports RT.

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Teen girls are showing up to the doctor with tics, and experts think anxiety, depression, and TikTok could be playing a role

Sarah Al-Arshani
Business Insider
Sun, 17 Oct 2021 07:38 UTC

Teen girls are showing up to the doctor with tics, and experts think anxiety, depression, and TikTok could be playing a role

Many of the teen girls who developed tics were watching TikTokers who say they have Tourette Syndrome, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Doctors in multiple countries are reporting a rise in teen girls developing tics, and that anxiety, depression, and TikTok could be contributing factors.

The rise began around the start of the pandemic and has alarmed and puzzled doctors, The Wall Street Journal reported. Several medical journal articles found the teen girls were watching TikTok videos of people who said they had Tourette syndrome.

Tourette syndrome is a genetic nervous-system disorder, according to VOA News, and can cause tics, repetitive, involuntary movements, or sounds. The disorder mostly impacts boys and the tics typically start when a person is young and then develop over time.

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College students support diversity quotas - but not for football team

Alana Mastrangelo
Breitbart
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 04:18 UTC

Students interviewed on the campus of the University of Florida appeared to overwhelmingly support racial diversity quotas in college admissions and hiring for the workplace — but when asked if they support diversity quotas in college football, the students suddenly disagreed. One student pointed out "just let the skill shine, and whoever's the best player deserves to be on the team."

"I think it's an absolute necessity," said one student in response to Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson's question about whether schools and the workplace should have diversity quotas.

"Absolutely, there should be more diversity in every single field," another student said, echoing the sentiments of the majority of students who answered the question.

But when Jacobson asked the students if they believed "college sports teams" should have diversity quotas, most of the students disagreed, stressing that it is important to prioritize "skill" above all else when you want to "win."

We must believe lies as truth or face the consequences. I am not sure if I can assimilate into the Brave New World.

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This figure is such an obvious parody and insult of the voters, I don't know why the whole deepfake administration was not court-martialled and...

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Jibrish

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Society's Child

What Assange judge, Vanessa Baraitser thought about the CIA's plot to kill or abduct him

Facebook to hire 10,000 'right people' in EU to realize its vision of 'metaverse'

Stripped of choice: Vienna museums open OnlyFans account after being fed up with other social media censoring their nude art

Dunkin Donuts runs out of donuts amid supply chain disruptions in Baltimore

Michigan elementary schools cancel Halloween and Valentines Day to be 'equitable and inclusive'

Passengers do nothing as woman is raped on Philadelphia train, cops say

'People would scream for hours': Former inmates detail torture in Russian prison

Word "spooky" banned by National Theatre over absurd claim it's racist

Teen girls are showing up to the doctor with tics, and experts think anxiety, depression, and TikTok could be playing a role

College students support diversity quotas - but not for football team

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