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'You started it, we will end it': Iranian news outlet posts mock Trump assassination video


Sputnik
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:21 UTC
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© YouTube/MEMRI TV Videos
Iran's Fars News Agency (FNA) is the latest organization to publish media depicting the assassination of US President Donald Trump, warning US leaders that if Washington starts a war, Tehran will end it.

As the world awaits the next moves by Washington and Tehran's following recently-heightened tensions brought about by the assassination of commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qassem Soleimani, FNA, the outlet regarded by many as Iran's semi-official news agency, published a short clip on Monday showing one potential outcome of a conflict.

A gunman is shown assembling his rifle and peering at an image of Soleimani before taking aim at the US president in the video, entitled "Hey US! You started, we will end it."

"Hey US, if you begin the war, we will end the war in the name of god, the beneficent, the merciful," reads the video's caption.
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Washington rebukes UK for extradition request of American diplomat charged in British teen's death


RT
Fri, 10 Jan 2020 23:14 UTC
anne Sacoolas, Harry Dunn
Anne Sacoolas (L) Harry Dunn (R)
Washington has rebuked the UK for its extradition request for the wife of an American diplomat over her role in a fatal car crash which killed a British teenager. She has refused to return to the country to face charges.

Home Secretary Priti Patel filed a formal extradition request on Friday for Anne Sacoolas, who struck 19-year-old Harry Dunn with her car last August while driving on the wrong side of the road near a joint US-UK military base in Northamptonshire. Dunn, who was riding a motorbike, did not survive.

"The Home Office has sent an extradition request to the United States for Anne Sacoolas on charges of causing death by dangerous driving," the Home Office said in a statement. "This is now a decision for the US authorities."

Comment: One might wonder how quickly Ms. Sacoolas would be on a plane to London, if the UK threatened to end Assange's detention and ignore his extradition request ...

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NPC

Celebrities turned delusional climate change activists, Joaquin Phoenix and Martin Sheen among 300 arrested at Washington, DC rally

Zack Sharf
IndieWire
Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:58 UTC
Joaquin Phoenix Fire Drill Friday climate change rally
© SHAWN THEW/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockJoaquin Phoenix participates in the Fire Drill Friday climate change rally.
Fresh off his Golden Globe win earlier this week, Joaquin Phoenix has been arrested in Washington D.C. for participating in a climate change rally. Phoenix was arrested alongside fellow actor Martin Sheen. The actors were two of 300 people attending the rally, organized by Jane Fonda. Fonda has been arrested several times over the last couple of months for protesting in Washington D.C. Deadline first reported the news. Phoenix addressed protestors at a rally prior to being arrested.

"Sometimes we wonder what can we do in this fight against climate change, and there is something that you can do today and tomorrow, by making a choice about what you consume," Phoenix said. "There are things I can't avoid. I flew a plane here today, or last night rather, but one thing I can do is change my eating habits."

Phoenix won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture thanks to his performance in "Joker," and he used his time at the podium to similarly bring attention to better eating choices. The Globes served a plant-based vegan menu this year, which Phoenix praised. Backstage after his Golden Globe win, Phoenix told press that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's decision to have a vegan dinner made him more excited to be at the Golden Globes than ever before.

Comment: Apparently these celebrities weren't paying attention to Ricky Gervais' pointed comments this past week - a fair number of rational people are simply not interested in their opinions and would prefer they stick to what they do best - act.
Comedian Ricky Gervais, man of the people:

They have the audacity to call for an "economic revolution" after making fortunes off us working-class stiffs. They look down on anyone who doesn't vote like them because they can't possibly imagine a world in which they might be wrong. Fame has tricked them into believing they are the moral arbiter of all that is good and right and just in the world.


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Attention

Five maximum security prison officers assaulted by radical Islamists at Whitemoor prison in central England

Michael Holden
Reuters
Thu, 09 Jan 2020 21:32 UTC
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Five prison officers were assaulted at a maximum security jail in England on Thursday and British counter-terrorism police opened an investigation, a police spokesman said.

London Police said officers from its Counter Terrorism Command were leading the inquiry into the incident at Whitemoor prison in central England.

The BBC reported that two inmates, one who was serving a sentence for terrorism offences, had carried out the attack using bladed weapons and were wearing fake suicide vests.

Comment: The Independent adds that the incident is now being considered a terror attack. One of the suspects is Brusthom Ziamani, a member of Anjem Choudary's al-Muhajiroun (ALM) Islamist network who was jailed for planning a terror attack in 2015.

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Yellow Vest

Best of the Web: Police crack down as striking workers and Yellow Vest protesters converge on streets across France


RT
Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:18 UTC

Comment: For 61 consecutive weeks the Yellow Vest protests have been going on... And they today converged with the 40 straight days of mass strikes by public workers. The French surely hold world records for protesting!


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© AFP / Lionel BonaventureProtesters run away from tear gas during a demonstration in Paris on January 11, 2020.
Rallies against France's pension reform and anti-government Yellow Vest protests have escalated into clashes with police in Paris and other cities. Police responded with tear gas as some protesters threw stones and started fires.

The nationwide strike against pension reforms has entered its 38th day in France, coinciding with 'Act 61' of demonstrations by the Yellow Vests, the movement that has been protesting state austerity measures each weekend for over a year now.

Tensions this Saturday appear to be particularly high, as clashes between the protesters and law enforcement erupted in multiple locations across the country.

Comment: One would expect these ostensibly separate movements, considering their shared concerns, to ultimately merge into one massive movement against Macron and his government' s destructive anti-national and anti-social policies: 450,000 join France's ongoing strike action including nurses, teachers and lawyers

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Thousands of independence supporters march in Glasgow, more rallies planned

Libby Brooks
The Guardian
Sat, 11 Jan 2020 07:00 UTC
Scottish independence
© Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty ImagesProtesters with Scottish flags attend the march organised by All Under One Banner calling for Scottish independence in Glasgow.
Thousands of independence supporters have begun marching through the streets of Glasgow.

The march is the first of eight planned for 2020 by the grassroots organisation All Under One Banner (AUOB) in what is likely to be a crucial year for the Scottish independence movement.

It comes the day after the former Labour cabinet minister and MP Ben Bradshaw declared he was "100% certain" that Scotland would choose to leave the UK in the event of a second referendum on independence, which the first minister and SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, is pushing for later this year.

Bradshaw told the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel: "The political class in England - and this includes my own party - must very quickly recognise the Scots' right to self-determination." His remarks were tweeted approvingly by Sturgeon.


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Biohazard

Man infected with mystery virus in China dies after outbreak

Brenda Goh
Reuters
Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:42 UTC
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Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market, where most of the mystery viral pneumonia cases have originated.
A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an outbreak of a yet to be identified virus while seven others are in critical condition, the Wuhan health authorities said on Saturday.

In total, 41 people have been diagnosed with the pathogen, which preliminary lab tests cited by Chinese state media earlier this week pointed to a new type of coronavirus, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said in a statement on its website.

It said the pathogen was an "unknown cause of viral pneumonia".

Two of them have been discharged from hospital and the rest are in stable condition, while 739 people deemed to have been in close contact with the patients have been cleared, it said.

Comment: Mysterious coronavirus identified by China in record time as cause of pneumonia outbreak

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Alleged anti-Semitic arsonist released with no bail in New York

Luke Rosiak
Daily Caller
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:22 UTC
james polite
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James Polite, who was charged with hate crimes and arson after he allegedly set fire to seven Jewish sites and vandalized a synagogue, was released from jail without bail Tuesday, according to court records.

Polite allegedly wrote "Die Jew Rats" and "Hitler" at the Union Temple of Brooklyn in November 2018. Security footage allegedly showed him setting setting fires at "seven shuls and yeshivas in Williamsburg."

The incidents led to the cancellation of a Democratic event at the synagogue, with a candidate saying it highlighted the need to vote out "hate."

Polite is a self-identified queer black man who was taken in by a Jewish couple after his mother left him in "unsanitary" conditions. At a Barack Obama rally, he met then-New York city council speaker Christine Quinn, who hired him as an intern working on anti-hate crime issues and also called him the "adopted child of the Quinn administration," according to a 2017 New York Times profile that said he "could defy the statistics."

Polite went on to immerse himself in African American studies at Brandeis University.

On Facebook, he shared a paper hosted on Brandeis' website from the Journal of Black Studies about "witchcraft, race and resistance in colonial New England," highlighting how "Whites accused blacks of the crime of witchcraft in New England."

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Bomb

Pakistan mosque blast kills 15, including senior police officer


RFE/RL
Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:49 UTC
pakistan mosque bomb blast
© AFPA soldier stands guard at the mosque hit by the bomb blast.
A senior police officer and 14 other people have been killed in a suicide bomb blast in the Pakistani southwestern city of Quetta, officials say.

Balochistan Province's Home Minister Ziaullah Langove said 19 people were also wounded in the January 10 explosion, which took place during evening prayers at a mosque in a satellite town of Quetta, the provincial capital. Some of the injured were said to be in a critical condition.

Langove said a suicide bomber detonated explosives attached to his body among the worshipers.

The Islamic State (IS) extremist group claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it was a suicide attack.

A deputy superintendent of police was among those killed.

A cleric leading the prayers, as well as associates and relatives of a prominent Taliban leader also died in the explosion, reports said.


The mosque was said to be part of an Islamic seminary run by the Afghan Taliban.
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Eye 1

Terrifying or nothing to fear? Apple admits to scanning user photos, presumably only to hunt child abuse


RT
Fri, 10 Jan 2020 01:55 UTC
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© Reuters / Mike Blake
Apple has confirmed that it scans user images in an effort to detect evidence of child abuse, but the company has revealed little about how the scans work, piquing concerns about data privacy and the reach of intrusive tech firms.

While it's unclear when the image scans started, Apple's chief privacy officer Jane Horvath confirmed at an event in Las Vegas this week that the company is now "utilizing some technologies to help screen for child sexual abuse material."

Apple initially suggested it might inspect images for abuse material last year - and only this week added a disclaimer to its website acknowledging the practice - but Horvath's remarks come as the first confirmation the company has gone ahead with the scans.

A number of tech giants, including Facebook, Twitter and Google, already employ an image-scanning tool known as PhotoDNA, which cross-checks photos with a database of known abuse images. It is unknown whether Apple's scanning tool uses similar technology.

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