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Flashback Epstein will never face justice but victims could still get some relief, judge says

Jay Weaver and Julie K. Brown
Miami Herald
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 01:12 UTC
Jeffrey Epstein
© Miami HeraldSex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell. The medical examiner ruled it a suicide.
Two women who in February convinced a judge that South Florida federal prosecutors violated the rights of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex victims a decade earlier aren't eligible for any major relief, according to a new ruling issued Monday.

The relief they wanted was to have the original charges against Epstein restored.

The reason they won't get that: Epstein, 66, died last month.

But U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra left open the possibility that another request by the victims could be fulfilled. They want to meet with prosecutors and get an explanation for why the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Florida didn't seek a sex trafficking indictment against Epstein and why they kept the status of the case secret from the victims.

Attorneys for the victims had wanted Epstein's decade-old non-prosecution agreement with the feds formally rescinded because it protected not just the wealthy investor but also people close to him who were suspected of recruiting underage girls for sex at his Palm Beach mansion. And because the victims were deliberately kept in the dark.

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Bullseye

Testimonies from the Syrian people: "What does the American government have against us?"

Janice Kortkamp and Mark Taliano
Global Research
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
Syrian Arab Army
© Mideast Discourse
Rania Akhrass "if death will come in 5 years or 7 or 10 I would urge it to come now because they have ripped us up of all hopes for any foreseen future... they have killed us while we are still breathing, they have taken any shred of dignity pushing us to strive for our daily bread ... I wonder what else they may ask for if we keep compromising ...."

1. Ayham Al-Shaer: I wonder what does the American Government have against the Syrian people and for what reason we are being punished?!

We've never been a threat to anyone, never hated anyone and certainly never been against Americans.

Now about the petrol crisis, we had a harsh winter, but we managed to overcome the cold. Now we face lack of Gasoline and most cars stay in queues for about two days on Gas stations to get about 20 liters a week.

2. حياة عواد : I do not understand this American intransigence ... Why do they want to kill us? We love our country and we do not want to leave it. My young son lost this 20 year old damned war Why does America support terrorism to earn money at the expense of people? The killing of my son I accused him is the one who helped the terrorists and killed our children and today we are counting on the top of our lives Yes, gasoline is the main source of movement Mechanisms, factories and cars ... Also heating Thousands of children have been hurt because of the cold and the children of their sons ... The livelihoods of people working on cars and engines Small and electricity .... why not talk The American people as long as they sleep in democracy ... Hands for living in dignity in our country We have not attacked you ... Let us live in peace ... ...

Thank you janice...
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Red Flag

More hypocrisy and censorship disguised as advice for 'combating disinformation'

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Fri, 20 Dec 2019 01:56 UTC
thought police
© Unknown
There is actually some good advice in the Democratic National Committee's five suggestions for avoiding "disinformation" online. Too bad it's buried in hypocrisy and promotion of literal disinformation shops, grifters and frauds.

On Tuesday, as Democrats launched their final impeachment push in the House of Representatives, the DNC posted a set of recommendations to its followers to protect themselves from "disinformation." While the jokes about flogging the dead horse of 'Russiagate' write themselves at this point, some of the advice offered is actually quite solid.

For instance, it makes perfect sense to actively seek out information from multiple sources. The DNC spoils it, however, by insisting the sources have to be "authoritative." As in what, approved by the Party? Well, no, merely by the self-appointed gatekeepers such as MediaBiasFactCheck and NewsGuard.

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Stop

Texas AG Ken Paxton denies public access to El Paso mass shooting records

Lesley Engle
ABC-7
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:53 UTC
Texas AG Ken Paxton
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says only “basic” information must be released to the public about the Walmart mass shooting in El Paso.
If Texas residents want to know more details about the El Paso mass shooting that left 22 dead and more than two dozen wounded or injured four months ago, the state attorney general says tough luck.

While Texas law gives officials the discretion to release as much information as possible about crimes, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says only "basic" information must be released to the public about the mass shooting that happened at the Cielo Vista Walmart on Aug. 3 in El Paso.

A leading government transparency lawyer and advocate says based on the law, and without knowing all the specific documents requested, it appears the attorney general complied with the law on the release of documents, but also noting a continuing decline and usefulness in the Texas Public Information Act.

As part of an ongoing ABC-7 investigation, the station filed a number of public records requests with the El Paso Police Department under the Texas Public Information Act on behalf of our viewers. Those requested records included dispatch & radio logs, 911 phone records, police reports, body-camera video and dash-camera video.

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Comment: Real transparency might threaten the official 'lone gunman' narrative, so we're not surprised that release of detailed information is being prohibited. See:

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Propaganda

Trump supporters in full revolt against missteps and selective coverage by the media

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC
Trump South Lawn
© AP Photo/Andrew HarnikPresident Trump on South Lawn of the White House
President Trump has broken the press in America. Or at least he has left it bruised and battered, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center, which crunched reams of data collected from 50 surveys and found that while Democrats continue to have faith in American media, Mr. Trump's followers are quite done with it all.

The findings were released just days after the press received its latest black eye in the inspector general's report looking at the FBI's behavior during its investigation into Mr. Trump. The inspector general thoroughly punctured journalists who insisted that the Christopher Steele dossier had little to do with the FBI's ability to obtain a secret warrant to spy on one of the candidate's advisers.

Fueled by those sorts of media missteps, Mr. Trump's followers are in full revolt against the press. According to Pew, the stronger the support for the president, the harsher the attitude toward the Fourth Estate. And the more knowledge about politics, the deeper the divide.

Comment: Verification of what we already know.
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Attention

Flashback George Washington University has a swastika problem

Kevin D. Williamson
National Review
Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:00 UTC
swastika painting
© LBCAPainting at Bog-Art Gallery, Brussels
The Left discovers the value of fake hate crimes.

When tyranny arrives on these shores, it isn't going to start off looking like something out of George Orwell — it's going to look a lot like college, which is why the sort of people who twice made Barack Obama president of these United States will welcome it.

George Washington University ("the Harvard of safety schools," as alumnus Dan Foster calls it) has a swastika problem. This goes back a ways. In 2007, a Jewish student, Sarah Marshak, reported that her dorm-room door had been defaced with swastikas, and she complained that the university was doing too little to investigate. But the university was in fact investigating thoroughly — it had, ridiculously enough, gone as far as consulting the FBI — and its sneakily hidden surveillance cameras recorded the vandal in action.

No points for guessing that the malefactor was Sarah Marshak.
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Red Flag

Children's transgender clinic in UK hit by 35 resignations in three years as psychologists warn of gender dysphoria 'over-diagnoses'

Laura Donnelly
The Telegraph
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 20:07 UTC
pills
A transgender clinic has been hit by 35 resignations in three years, as psychologists warn of "overdiagnoses" of gender dysphoria among children.

The whistleblowers said too many children were being put on puberty-blocking drugs when they should not have been given the diagnosis.

Former staff said they were unable to properly assess patients over fears they will be branded "transphobic".

The concerns were raised by six psychologists who have resigned from London's children's gender-identity service in the past three years.
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Chinese national arrested for trespassing at Mar-a-Lago

Terry Spencer
NBC News
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:32 UTC
Jing Lu trespassing mar a lago
© NBC NewsJing Lu
Jing Lu, 56, was confronted by the private club's security officers and told to leave, but returned to take photos

A Chinese national was arrested for trespassing and refusing to leave President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club Wednesday, police said.

Jing Lu, 56, was confronted by the private club's security officers and told to leave, but she returned to take photos, Palm Beach police spokesman Michael Ogrodnick said in an email. Palm Beach officers were called and arrested her. It was determined she had an expired visa, Ogrodnick said.

Lu was charged with loitering and prowling and was being held late Wednesday at the Palm Beach County jail.
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Blackbox

Big surprise: Surveillance footage from Epstein's first 'suicide attempt' goes missing

Marlene Lenthang
Daily Mail
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:38 UTC
Nick Tartaglione
Nick Tartaglione
Surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide attempt in jail has vanished, it was revealed Wednesday, as the mystery into the pedophile's death deepens.

In court on Wednesday prosecutors revealed that they could not locate the footage from outside Epstein's cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City when he attempted to take his own life on July 23.

'I don't know the details of how it was lost or destroyed or why it wasn't retained when it should have been,' lawyer Bruce Barket said in court.

In that attempt Epstein was found with neck injuries after he apparently tried to hang himself and was moved to suicide watch at the prison.

Two weeks later Epstein succeeded in killing himself in his cell on August 10.

However, authorities have no explanation as to how or why the footage from the July 23 attempt went missing. They said they simply could not find it, according to TMZ.

A judge told prosecutors to look further as to how the footage disappeared.

Epstein's cellmate at the time Nick Tartaglione, who was awaiting trial for four counts of murder, had formally requested that video be preserved two days after the suicide attempt as evidence.
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Bomb

Veiled woman with Koran claims to belong to Fetullah Terror Org., threatens to blow up plane at Istanbul airport


Sputnik
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:32 UTC
istanbul airport
© AFP 2019 / MIRA
A flight from Istanbul to Tymbou in northern Cyprus was reportedly cancelled over a terror scare prompted by one of the passengers. The woman, who wore sunglasses and covered her face with a veil, claimed to be a member of FETO - the Fethullah Terrorist Organisation, linked to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen by the Turkish government.

A woman claiming to be a terrorist and threatened to blow up an aircraft in Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport was surrounded and restrained by fellow passengers.

The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports that the woman, wearing a face veil and dark glasses, started shouting and waving a Koran before take-off, right when the plane, destined for Tymbou in northern Cyprus from Istanbul, was on the runway.

"I am a Feto member, and I will blow up the aircraft", she reportedly shouted in Turkish, referring to the Fethullah Terrorist Organisation, accused of orchestrating the 2016 coup attempt and linked to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen by the Turkish government.

Before security arrived and escorted her off the plane, she is said to have had a row with other travellers and lit cigarettes. Although she allegedly claimed that she had five bombs, nothing was found on board.

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