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Police searching for thieves who made off with over $30M worth of gold, precious metals at Brazil airport

Enjoli Francis
ABC News
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 05:05 UTC
A fake police truck
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A fake police truck that was used in robbery is transported on a flat-bed truck in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 25, 2019.
Police in Brazil are poring over a surveillance video in hopes of identifying a group of thieves who stole gold and other precious metals from Sao Paulo's airport.

At least six men with their faces covered disguised as federal police and heavily armed entered the cargo terminal at Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport on Thursday and unloaded nearly 1,600 pounds of gold and precious metals bound for New York City and Zurich, Switzerland, authorities said.

"They subdued the guard at the entrance," Assistant Police Chief João Hueb said during Friday's news conference.

In video released by authorities, the thieves could be seen pulling up at the terminal and signaling for airport workers to load up a vehicle with the packages.
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Notorious Israeli mafia kingpin and bodyguard assassinated in broad-day shootout in Mexico City


RT
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:58 UTC
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Israeli crime boss and convicted murderer Ben Suthi and his bodyguard (and fellow underworld figure) Alon Azulay were murdered in a hail of bullets as they sat at a restaurant in Mexico City’s upscale Artz Pedregal shopping center on Wednesday.
A notorious Israeli underworld figure and his bodyguard were gunned down in a brazen broad-daylight shootout inside a Mexico City restaurant by cartel-linked killers authorities believe to be hired by Israeli organized crime.

Israeli crime boss and convicted murderer Ben Suthi and his bodyguard (and fellow underworld figure) Alon Azulay were murdered in a hail of bullets as they sat at a restaurant in Mexico City's upscale Artz Pedregal shopping center on Wednesday. The killing was most likely "a settling of scores in the Israeli mafia," according to a spokesman for the Mexico City prosecutor's office. A total of 44 shots were fired during the altercation, according to authorities, and it was captured on multiple CCTV cameras.

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Feds have subpoenaed Epstein's personal pilots to gather details on his travels and associates


Fox News
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:20 UTC
Jeffrey Epstein
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed Jeffrey Epstein's longtime personal pilots, according to people familiar with the matter, as investigators seek to question the financier's employees in the wake of his indictment on sex-trafficking charges.

The grand jury subpoenas were served on the pilots earlier this month after Mr. Epstein's arrest on July 6, some of the people said. Mr. Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after he had returned from Paris on a private jet.

A lawyer for one of the pilots confirmed the subpoena, but declined to provide further details.

Comment: Epstein case has the potential to be the biggest scandal in American history

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Twitter caves to public pressure and restores Lindsay Shepherd's account

Barrett Wilson
The Post Millenial
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:37 UTC
Lindsay Shepherd

Lindsay Shepherd
In an unexpected move, free speech activist and Post Millennial columnist Lindsay Shepherd has been reinstated by Twitter.

Twitter first suspended Shepherd after she got into an argument with a notorious trans woman named Jessica Yaniv who has targeted the businesses of immigrant women who refused to wax her male genitals by lodging frivolous human rights complaints and allegedly sexually harassing multiple young girls.
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Morality professor calls to 'dispossess' philanthropists of their wealth

Celine Ryan
Campus Reform
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:29 UTC
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A University of California, Berkeley instructor teaching a course on morality has made his views on the subject abundantly clear, arguing that wealthy people are inherently immoral, even when they donate their wealth to worthy causes.

Philosophy instructor Nick French is teaching a summer 2019 course called "Individual Morality and Social Justice," in which students address questions such as "What makes an action right or wrong, good or bad?" and "What's involved in living a good life?" The course also seeks to address the question of what a "just society" looks like, and how individuals should "respond to injustice."

The first half of the course is dedicated to addressing "how individuals ought to live." Later, students will analyze "the justice of social arrangements."

French argued in a recent Jacobin Magazine op-ed that people need to "dispossess the benevolent rich of their ill-gotten gains." The leftist magazine states that French is also a member of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.

In the piece, titled "Even Nice, 'Generous' Rich People Are Not Your Friends," French suggests that having wealth is an automatic indication of immorality, even if one contributes that wealth to worthwhile social causes.

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

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Teenage apocalypse guru, Greta Thunberg, poses in an Antifa t-shirt


Sputnik
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:18 UTC
Greta Thunberg
© AP Photo / Alessandra Tarantino
Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg has added more controversy to her name by posing in a T-shirt with radical left-wing Antifa movement imagery and calling for a national strike for the sake of climate.

16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, recently dubbed "Apocalypse Guru", has sparked outrage by publishing a picture of herself wearing a shirt worn by members of the left-wing Antifa movement.

In one of her recent tweets, Thunberg notified her massive followship that she had released a song with the British indie pop band The 1975. All revenues will go to the climate movement Extinction Rebellion, which has made a name for itself by organising left-wing climate protests in Sweden and other countries.

"Time to rebel", the Nobel Peace Prize nominee wrote, posting a photograph of herself wearing a shirt tagged "Antifascist All Stars". Thunberg's shirt is also adorned with a five-pointed star and No Pasaran caption, ("They Shall Not Pass"), a Spanish War-era slogan popular in left-wing circles.

Comment: More on the apocalypse guru:

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16 Marines arrested at Camp Pendleton for human smuggling & drug-related offenses

Elizabeth Mclaughlin and Luis Martinez
ABC News
Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:58 UTC
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Sixteen U.S. Marines were arrested on Thursday morning for their alleged involvement in activities ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses, the Marine Corps said.

The arrests were carried out by officials from 1st Marine Division and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service during an 800-person battalion formation at Camp Pendleton in California.

"Information gained from a previous human smuggling investigation precipitated the arrests," the Marines said in a statement.

A spokesperson for 1st Marine Division confirmed to ABC News that a case of two Marines charged with human smuggling earlier this month "identified the allegations" against the individuals involved in Thursday's arrests.
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Disaster strikes aquatic world championships in Korea: Nightclub floor collapses, killing 2, injuring dozens more

Helen Davidson
The Guardian
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:20 UTC
nightclub collapse korea swimming
Two South Koreans have died and several others, including athletes attending the world aquatic championships, have been injured after a structure collapsed in a nightclub in the city of Gwangju early on Saturday, a fire department official has said.

The deaths happened when a two-level structure in the club, which is next to the athletes' village, collapsed at about 2am local time, hitting and pinning revellers, the official said.

Hundreds were inside the seven-storey nightclub at the time. The BBC reported the two people killed were aged 38 and 27, and were not competitors at the championships.

Yonhap news agency reported that nine athletes competing in the 2019 Fina aquatic World Championships were injured, though none of them seriously. Their injuries ranged from bruising to lacerations on their hands or feet, the agency said.
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Bill outlawing Muslim 'instant divorce' passes India's lower house of parliament


RT
Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
India Talaq bill
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Muslim women staging a protest against the Triple Talaq bill.
A controversial bill banning the practice of 'triple Talaq' divorce among muslims has passed India's lower house of parliament by a resounding margin, amidst a walk-out by members of the opposition.

The so-called Triple Talaq bill was passed on Thursday, with 302 votes in favor and 82 against. It seeks to make the practice of instant divorce, achieved simply by saying 'Talaq' three times, a criminal offence, punishable by three years in prison. The bill must now pass the upper house, where opposition parties are in the majority, before it becomes law.

Comment: It will be interesting to see how the Modi government manages to get this bill passed in India's upper house, the Rajya Sabha, where it is little short of majority...


See also: Modi's Minority Report: Indian PM strikes a pitch for greater Muslim Inclusiveness.

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Right-wing street artist hijacks Hollywood billboards to shame Epstein, Allen and Polanski: 'Once Upon a Time in Pedowood'

Cassandra Fairbanks
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 20:55 UTC
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A giant billboard for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has been hijacked by right-wing street artist Sabo to take aim at pedophiles Roman Polanski and Jeffrey Epstein.

The billboard on Pico and La Cienega in Hollywood now reads "Once Upon a Time in Pedowood." Sabo also replaced the faces of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio with the infamous predators.
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