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Are the Alcatraz Escapees Still Alive?


UK Independent
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:14 UTC
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On the morning of June 12 1962, a loud, shrill siren began wailing from the top of a rock in San Francisco Bay.

Few, if any, had ever before heard it sound in anger. It was the escape siren on the supposedly inescapable island prison of Alcatraz.

Fifty-six years ago on Tuesday, an early morning bed check revealed that three inmates were missing from their cells.
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Interview with John Pilger: That eerie silence surrounding the Julian Assange case

Dennis J. Bernstein
Consortiumnews
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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© Oli Scarff/Getty Images EuropePilger and Assange, London, Oct. 7, 2011.
Julian Assange remains cut off from the world in Ecuador's London embassy, shut off from friends, relatives and thousands of supporters, leaving him unable to do his crucial work, as John Pilger discusses with Dennis J. Bernstein.

In a recent communication between Randy Credico, an Assange supporter, comic and radio producer, and Adam Schiff, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, Assange's fear of arrest and extradition to the US was confirmed by the leader of the Russia-gate frenzy.

Credico received the following response from Schiff after meeting the the Congressman's staff, in which Credico was trying to connect Assange with Schiff: "Our committee would be willing to interview Assange when he is in U.S. Custody and not before."

Dennis Bernstein spoke with John Pilger, a close friend and supporter of Assange on May 29. The interview began with the statement Bernstein delivered for Pilger at the Left Forum last weekend in New York on a panel devoted to Assange entitled, "Russia-gate and WikiLeaks".

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Rand Paul blasts fellow Rep Lindsey Graham as a 'danger to our country'


RT
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 01:42 UTC
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© Kevin Lamarque/ReutersSenator Lindsey Graham
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) is a "danger to the country" for suggesting a US war against North Korea, said his colleague Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) as Americans waited for the historic summit in Singapore.

"Lindsey Graham is a danger to the country by even proposing ideas like authorizing war with Korea, my goodness," Paul told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday afternoon. "Serious people" should not even be discussing such a "naive" idea, he added, and he would "absolutely not" vote for such a measure in the Senate.


Comment: It is time for the Senate and the House to do a weed-out. The Lindsey Graham types are not even useful idiots.

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Bill Clinton: 'Norms have changed for what you can do to somebody against their will'

Chris Perez
NY Post
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:12 UTC
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© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
It's probably time for Bill Clinton to stop doing interviews.

The former president has come under fire once again for comments he made during a recent sit-down - this time noting how "norms have changed in terms of what you can do to somebody against their will."

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Red Flag

Facebook hiring 'news credibility specialists', continues pushing thought control agenda

Chris Black
Investment Watch Blog
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:25 UTC
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As Facebook continues its descent into irrelevancy, at least among the younger generation, Zuckerberg's latest move is to make editorial decisions about what news content the public should be able to "consume" via his social media platform via hiring "news credibility specialists". "News credibility specialists" sounds like Goebbels and Stalin's wet dream if you ask me, but let that go.

Here's a quote from Facebook's ad for the job via Business Insider and Fortune:
"We're seeking individuals with a passion for journalism, who believe in Facebook's mission of making the world more connected," one of the two listings reads. It continues: "As a member of the team, you'll be tasked with developing a deep expertise in Facebook's News Credibility Program. You'll be conducting investigations against predefined policies." Facebook would ask the specialists to help create a list of credible news organizations. That list could be used for various features on the site, from the newsfeed to its advertising system."

"The job announcement on Facebook's official job site is now down, but similar job postings also showed up on LinkedIn. Similarly worded job postings also appear on LinkedIn, posted by a staffing company on behalf of an unnamed Menlo Park company. (The LinkedIn URLs include the phrase "world's largest social network," which is kind of a tipoff it's Facebook.) Those posts mention that "you'll be tasked with developing a deep expertise in News Credibility Program and evaluating news publishers for policy compliance"
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Is world opinion finally shifting in Julian Assange's favor?

Elizabeth Vos
Disobedient Media
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:54 UTC
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Although the phrase Zeitgeist refers to the spirit of an age, it seems appropriate to use it to describe the shift in consciousness that can take place in a moment.

As the sixth anniversary of Julian Assange's asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy approaches, public awareness is rapidly shifting in Assange's favor. The ongoing isolation of Julian Assange by the Ecuadorian government appears to have bolstered sympathy for the Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief worldwide, instead of relegating him to the detritus of a fast-moving news cycle.
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Paris 10th district on lockdown amid reports of armed man holding several people hostage


RT
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:02 UTC
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An area in Paris 10th district has been on lockdown after an armed man reportedly took several people, including a pregnant woman, hostage in one of the buildings, local media report.
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Colombian presidential election run-off: Swarm of angry bees attacks right-wing candidate's rally

Joe Parkin Daniels
The Guardian
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:23 UTC
Videos circulate in local media showed rally attendees hurrying to escape swarm at event for Iván Duque
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© Fernando Vergara/APIvan Duque holds a campaign rally in Armenia, Colombia Sunday.
Campaign managers for Colombia's rightwing presidential candidate Iván Duque were probably hoping to create a bit of a buzz with a campaign rally ahead of next week's election, but the event turned into fiasco after it was attacked by a swarm of angry killer bees.

Scores of people were caught up in the bizarre incident on Saturday, including former president Álvaro Uribe, who was stumping on behalf of his protege Duque.

Uribe had been scheduled to address supporters in La Loma, a small town in the northern Cesar province, but was forced to run for cover before he could give his speech. Fifteen people were taken to hospital, but were later discharged.

Videos circulated in local media showed rally attendees hurrying to escape the swarm, some covering their faces with T-shirts.

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Red Flag

Brexit campaigner Arron Banks hit with accusations of links to Moscow but responds with trolling and shrugs


RT
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:16 UTC
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© Rob Pinney / Global Look PressAndy Wigmore (L) and Arron Banks (R) are seen leaving BBC office on April 23, 2017
The UK media has come up with yet another 'sensational revelation' that allegedly sheds light on ties between the Kremlin and major Brexit campaigners. The story only seemed to raise laughter from those mentioned in it, though.

There is no rest for the wicked, it seems, as the British media apparently goes to great lengths to continue the narrative of Russia's interference in the UK's vote to leave the EU alive. This time, the Sunday Times dug up a story that was immediately turned into a new 'reason' for anti-Russian hysteria and even prompted the Minister for the Cabinet Office in Theresa May's government, David Lidington, to call for an investigation.

The respected "quality paper" reported that Arron Banks, the millionaire co-founder and major funder of the Brexit campaign known as Leave.EU, made repeated contacts with Russian officials and even took such an incautious and reasonably suspicious step to make a trip to Moscow at the time when the UK was at the height of the Brexit campaign. And by saying "repeated contacts," the Sunday Times actually means as many as three meetings between Banks and Andy Wigmore, the director of communications for Leave.EU, and Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko over a period of more than a year.
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Sentenced to death for illegally crossing the EU border, Penka the cow shall live


RT
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:03 UTC
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© GERARD JULIEN / AFP
Penka the cow, whose life was left hanging by a thread after illegally crossing the EU border without the necessary paperwork, is to be spared.
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