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Decorated US Navy Seal is under investigation for war crimes in Iraq


Sputnik
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:39 UTC
Navy Seal Gallagher
© Navy TimesSpecial Operations Chief Edward Gallagher
The Navy SEAL was nominated for the Silver Star - the armed forces' third-highest honour - after returning from his latest tour in Iraq less than a year ago.

Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, a highly decorated Navy SEAL medic and sniper, is under investigation for committing war crimes in Iraq.

Gallagher served with the elite SEALs for almost 20 years, but is currently being detained and facing severe punishment for indiscriminately shooting at civilians and performing his reenlistment ceremony while posing with the corpse of a teenage Daesh militant who he stabbed to death.

He has been charged with premeditated murder, bringing "discredit upon the armed forces" and obstruction of justice, in addition to several other charges, for which he is likely to be handed a life sentence if found guilty.
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Airline asks passengers to cough up money for plane repairs in order to take off


RT
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:02 UTC
Airlines
© Reuters / Kacper PempelA poster of LOT's Boeing Dreamliner aircraft at Warsaw's Chopin airport.
A Polish airline has apologized after passengers waiting to take a delayed flight were asked by staff to cough up extra cash in order to help settle a repair bill so their airplane could finally take off.

The unusual extra charge occurred on Poland's flagship carrier, LOT Polish Airlines, before a scheduled return flight to Warsaw from Beijing on November 12.

Issues with the Boeing Dreamliner arose in the Chinese capital during the after-flight checkup, when it was noticed that the aircraft's hydraulic pump had broken down.

Already grounded for 10 hours, passengers were then solicited by a member of the airline staff to help raise cash in order to pay the Boeing repairman, who demanded cash to settle the bill before carrying out the repair.
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FYI, saying 'men aren't women' now qualifies as 'hateful speech' on Twitter


RT
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:05 UTC
Man and woman
© Global Look Press / imagebroker / Michaela Begsteiger
Twitter's crusade against "hate speech" has vanquished yet another meany face. A prominent Canadian feminist says that the company flagged a tweet she wrote which meekly suggested that men aren't women. Isn't Twitter fun?

Meghan Murphy, editor of Canada's leading feminist news portal, Feminist Current, was recently informed by Twitter that two of her tweets had violated the platform's rules against "hateful conduct."

One of the offending tweets stated that "men aren't women," while the other asked: "How are transwomen not men?"

"This is f*cking bullshit @twitter. I'm not allowed to say that men aren't women or ask questions about the notion of transgenderism at all anymore?" Murphy tweeted. "That a multi billion dollar company is censoring BASIC FACTS and silencing people who ask questions about this dogma is INSANE."

Comment: See also: Feminist poster banned because it could 'offend trans people'

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Tucker Carlson: Ocasio-Cortez has 'good point' in criticizing tax breaks for Amazon

Joe Concha
The Hill
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:00 UTC
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Tucker Carlson (L) Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(R)
Fox News host Tucker Carlson says Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) "has a very good point" in criticizing Amazon for receiving taxpayer subsidies for its new headquarters, asking, "How does that work?"

Carlson admitted on his prime-time program late Tuesday that while he hated "to admit it," he agreed with Ocasio-Cortez's perspective.

"Jeff Bezos, who is the world's richest man, will receive more than $2 billion in subsidies from you, the taxpayer," he stated. "New Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had this to say: 'Amazon is a billion-dollar company. The idea it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax rates at a time when a subway is crumbling in our communities need more investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here.'"

"I hate to admit it, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a very good point," Carlson continued. "It's hard to argue with the internal logic, the richest man in the world just got $2 billion in taxpayer subsidies. How does that work?"
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Family of Palestinian woman murdered by illegal settlers finds no justice, still searching for answers

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:13 UTC
Aisha al-Rabi car stoning
© Ma'an News AgencyOne of the many photos circulated on social media shows a loving Aisha and Yaqoub
It all happened within seconds. Aisha al-Rabi, 48, was sitting in the car with her husband Yaqoub, 51, laughing and jesting with their youngest daughter, 8-year-old Rama.

The parents of eight children were on the way home to their village of Bidya, in the northwestern occupied West Bank, after visiting one of their daughters in Hebron on October 12.

Yaqoub and Aisha were excitedly discussing plans for the engagement of one of their daughters in two weeks. The next moment, Aisha was unconscious, blood spilling from her head.

Comment: So long as the illegal settlers serve Israel's goal of absorbing the entirety of Palestine, don't expect to see any sort of justice. The Palestinians are lesser beings in the Zionist view. Justice is a concept that doesn't apply to them.

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#BelieveAllWomen fail: Selfie saves man from 99 year prison sentence after his ex-girlfriend falsely accuses him of assault


RT
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:58 UTC
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© Getty/ Hero Images
The maniacal obsession with taking selfies is often derided, but on this occasion a single random snap turned out to be a life-saver for a man who faced spending the rest of his life in jail for a crime never committed.

It all unraveled when Texan Cristopher "CJ" Precopia, 21, was accused by his high school ex-girlfriend of breaking into her home in Bell County, assaulting her, carving an "X" onto her chest and cutting her face, ABC reports.

In a handwritten statement to police obtained by the outlet's Austin affiliate KVUE, the woman wrote, "I could hear the slices being made and it stung a lot."

His lawyer, Rick Flores, said Precopia was taken aback when officers from the Temple County Police Department showed up with an arrest warrant in September 2017.

When his client asked them on what grounds they were taking him into custody, the officers responded "something along the lines of, 'Don't act like you don't know what we're talking about," Flores said.

Comment: The accuser should be prosecuted and held liable for Precopia's legal fees. See also:

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Russian crime boss dines on caviar and crab while in prison and the Kremlin is outraged


RT
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:51 UTC
caviar and Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz
© Sputnik / Tatyana Kuznetsova,Alexey Nasyrov
Revelations that a brutal Russian gang lord, convicted of organizing murders and extortion, turned his prison cell into a hotel room with cellphone, delicacies and parties, are "outrageous," the presidential press-secretary said.

The photos of Vyacheslav Tsepovyaz, nicknamed 'Zlodey' (the Villain), munching on crab meat, caviar and kebabs, while serving his almost 20-year prison term, have caused a vast public outcry after surfacing online earlier in November.

The criminal also held parties with other inmates and used a mobile phone with internet access, which is strictly forbidden for prisoners.

As one of the bosses of the infamous Tsapok gang, Tsepovyaz was jailed in 2013 for his part in organizing a massacre in Kushchevskaya, southern Russia. In the 2010 incident, a farmer and his guests, 12 people including 4 children, were slaughtered.

"It's an outrageous, disgusting situation," Dmitry Peskov, the president's press secretary said.
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Biometrics companies want to offer incentives to lure consumers into using with facial recognition


RT
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:43 UTC
facial scanner
© Reuters / Damir Sagolj
Operating on the gradual model of Google and Facebook, biometrics companies are plotting a slow rollout of facial recognition technology, barbed with incentives to hook customers and distract them from the demise of privacy.

Arenas, airports and stores are already adopting facial recognition software to identify criminals, from shoplifters to potential terrorists - so marketing is the natural next step, according to Arturo Falck, CEO of Whoo.ai and one of several biometrics execs interviewed by trade publication Biometric Update.
Once companies are using this type of technology for crime prevention purposes, there's no reason why they should not be using it for upselling their customers.
And what if those customers don't want to be upsold? A Brookings Institute survey last month indicated half of Americans still oppose facial recognition for theft prevention purposes, let alone marketing, indicating Whoo.ai has an uphill battle ahead. Along those lines, 50 percent think there should be limits on the technology's use by law enforcement. Emails recently obtained by the Project on Government Oversight reveal Amazon has pitched its own facial recognition systems to ICE and other government agencies.
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Hotel owner paid cop to leave blindfolded foster kid in his 'sex dungeon,' CT police say

Josh Magness
Miami Herald
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 09:18 UTC
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It started in October, when Connecticut police say they noticed a person with the email "daddydomboss@baymontct.com" was looking to do a "casting couch interview" with a young Mexican girl.

Now, police have arrested 46-year-old Simon Hessler, whom they accused of trying to purchase an underage foster child so he could have "limitless sex" with her in his "sex dungeon" that he had set up in a trailer near the hotel he owns, according to Fox61.

Det. Samantha McCord was investigating child sex trafficking when she went undercover to reach out to Hessler, who provided photos of "an elaborate sado-masochism room with multiple beds with whips and chains and handcuffs on the wall" that he hoped to use with an underage girl, police say, according to The Hartford Courant.

For two decades, Hessler had been doing the "training of slaves" in his trailer with the aid of clients from New York and Boston, he allegedly told McCord, according to NBC Connecticut.
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'Wrong on so many levels': Priest in a Porsche uses children as beasts of burden to pull him through the town parade


RT
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:57 UTC
kids tow priest
© Carmel Saliba
A newly appointed parish priest is being accused of using his stature to put on a "ostentatious" public display, during which children were seen pulling a Porsche through the streets of a Maltese town with the clergyman inside.

Fr John Sultana, who this week was named the new parish priest for Gozitan community, Malta, was honored with a traditional parade by local followers. However, the pastor's use of a rather luxurious vehicle and manner in which he was heralded into his new role has drawn widespread criticism.

Footage showing Fr Sultana standing inside a convertible Porsche as lines of children pulled the Porsche Boxster through the streets of Żebbuġ has been labelled by some as "crass" and unbefitting of a representative of the Catholic Church.
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