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Lesbian Moms who drove adopted children off cliff have dark history of neglect and abuse

Ruth Brown
New York Post
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:56 UTC
Jennifer and Sarah Hart
© FacebookJennifer and Sarah Hart
The moms who fatally veered off a California cliff with at least three of their six adopted kids were being investigated for starving their children before Monday's crash — and one was previously convicted of domestic assault for hitting their little girl, according to new reports.

Cops say they still have no evidence Jennifer and Sarah Hart deliberately drove their SUV off the road — but have noted that there were no skid or brake marks where the vehicle went over. Three of the kids' bodies had been found as of Thursday morning, while the others — including 15-year-old Devonte, whose image went viral after he was photographed tearfully hugging a white cop at a 2014 protest in Ferguson, Missouri — remain missing.

California cliff
© Alvin Jornada/The Press Democrat/Associated PressA truck drives by the pullout where the SUV of Jennifer and Sarah Hart was recovered off the Pacific Coast Highway, near Westport, Calif., Wednesday.
The Harts' Washington state neighbors say they'd recently called Child Protective Services after Devonte kept showing up at their house, claiming his parents "weren't feeding them" and were "punishing them by withholding food" — and asked them to leave food by the fence so his parents wouldn't know, the Oregonian reports.

Officials say they tried unsuccessfully to reach the family three times to investigate — but the neighbors say the family fled when a CPS worker showed up at their door Friday.

Comment: Behind the facade of caring liberal progressivism lies the dark shadow of resentment, lust for power, and authoritarian control.

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World outraged as Israeli Army murders unarmed protesters in Gaza


Mondoweiss
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:07 UTC
Israel army
Israeli forces, prepared to shoot Palestinian protesters in Gaza.
We are closely following the horrifying news from Gaza this morning. The Israeli government said it would meet Gaza protesters with live fire across the border fence and duly massed snipers on the border; and it has followed through today, killing at least nine Palestinians, according to early reports. Sadly the number keeps climbing: as of 4 PM EST, Haaretz was reporting that 15 Palestinians had been killed.

The outrage on the left is reminiscent of the Mavi Marmara onslaught in 2010, when Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish aid ship trying to reach Gaza and killed nine of the aid volunteers. Even Israel supporters are already making this comparison- to an event that brought global condemnation/diplomatic embarrassment to Israel.

The Associated Press reports 1000 Palestinians injured by tear gas inhalation and from being struck by live rounds or rubber-coated bullets. The Times of Israel reports "scattered" protests on the West Bank.

Comment: The Independent has also done an excellent job detailing the protests:
By first light yesterday Palestinian preparations for the Gaza "Return March" seemed well underway: tents were being pitched all along the Gaza buffer zone and old men were arriving with banners proclaiming the names of their villages, from which they were expelled as children 70 years ago, never to return.

Palestinian factions in Gaza, including the ruling Hamas, had ordered that the demonstration be peaceful, insisting marchers to keep well back from Israel's barrier wall.

With 100 snipers positioned on the barrier, however, Israel's preparations were a show of brute force and soon after dawn an Israeli tank shell had killed Omar Samour, a Palestinian farmer with land near the buffer zone - the first Return March martyr but certainly not the last.

Israel's ruthless response to the Gaza's peaceful Return March should come as no surprise. The Israeli military justified the show of force on the grounds that Hamas might exploit the event in some way with acts of violence. But Israel's real fear of the "return marchers" runs far deeper. Nothing has ever frightened Israel more than the demands of Palestinian refugees for a right to return to their pre-1948 homes. And no group of refugees has a stronger case than those of Gaza who live within a few miles of their former villages.


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Washington police stand by initial conclusion of 'no foul play' in Mikhail Lesin's death


RT
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:07 UTC
FBI police Washington
© Jim Bourg / ReutersFBI Police vehicles sit parked outside of the J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Building in Washington, US
Metropolitan Police have said they still believe the death of the Russian media tycoon in Washington in 2015 was an accident. The latest assertion comes in light of a secret report alleging Mikhail Lesin was "bludgeoned to death."

"MPD [Metropolitan Police Department] stands behind its original assertion that Mr. Lesin's death was not a homicide," the MPD's press office said on Thursday in response to Sputnik's request for comment.

The case, which was officially closed in October 2016, began making the rounds again this week after Buzzfeed published an article on Tuesday, citing a "secret report" by the author of infamous "Trump Dossier," Christopher Steele. Steele, an MI6 spy-turned-private investigator, alleged that Lesin, a former minister and an ex-head of Gazprom-Media, was beaten to death by associates of a Russian oligarch that were close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The report, which claims to draw on "high-level sources in Moscow," was provided to the FBI, which, according to Buzzfeed, is covering up the true causes of Lesin's demise.

Comment: Further reading: Buzzfeed pushes nonsensical Christopher Steele conspiracy theory FBI covered up death of Mikhail Lesin in 2015 by Putin enforcers

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Three states offered Gaddafi refuge says slain Libyan leader's official interpreter and confirms Sarkozy donation


Sputnik
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:22 UTC
Muammar Gaddafi
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In the wake of the scandal around Nicolas Sarkozy's alleged illegal campaign funding by the former Libyan leader, Meftah Abdallah Missuri, Muammar Gaddafi's official interpreter, told Sputnik that the former French President was not the only one to have made use of the colonel's "generosity."

"Mubarak [Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president from 1981 to 2011], Ben Ali [Zine El Abidin Ben Ali, Tunisia's president from 1987 to 2011] asked for Gaddafi's help. He helped 'third world' countries: from Asia to South America. For instance, the French Foreign Ministry's budget constitutes 1 billion 700 million euros, 780 million of which is allocated to develop relations and help other nations. As for Libya, there was no definite sum for such aims ever," Missuri said.

The interpreter elaborated that Libya had helped everyone under various circumstances - natural calamities, famine, grasshopper plagues - sending medicine and planes. In the meantime, he added that if any head of state asked for help, Tripoli donated from half a million to five million dinars.
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British ISIS torturers 'regret' beheadings but say revoking citizenship 'unfair'


RT
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:01 UTC
Photos provided by SDF on February 9, 2018, showing captured ISIS members Alexanda Kotey and Shafee Elsheikh
© SDF handout / ReutersPhotos provided by SDF on February 9, 2018, showing captured ISIS members Alexanda Kotey and Shafee Elsheikh.
Two British ISIS members have described their brutal execution of hostages as "regrettable." The men also said that the British government's decision to revoke their citizenship denied them the chance of a fair trial.

El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Amon Kotey were allegedly part of a four-member Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS/ISIL) cell known as "The Beatles." The cell became known for its brutal execution videos of hostages, including American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley in 2014.

The cell's leader, Mohammed Emwazi, became known as "Jihadi John," and appeared in many of the group's videos, threatening the west from behind a mask. Emwazi was "evaporated" in a coalition drone strike in Raqqa, Syria in November 2015. Another member of the group, Aine Lesley Davis, was arrested in Turkey last year and sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Two Texans arrested under the suspicion of planning massacre at Boston Anti-Gun March

Jennifer Smith
Daily Mail
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:24 UTC
Were they planning a March For Our Lives massacre? Texan couple's enormous stash of weapons including AR-15s and grenades is found in Boston hotel room along with parking tickets which suggest they had been surveilling protest site for days.
  • Francho Bradley, 59, and Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested on Saturday
  • At 3.40pm, he called police in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, from his car
  • He said someone had broken into his hotel room at the Marriott Inn Residence
  • Bradley had a surveillance feed linked up to a mounted laptop in his car, he said
  • Police went to the hotel room and found five rifles, a shotgun, grenades, a handgun, a revolver and hundreds of rounds of ammunition
  • They also discovered walkie-talkies, six laptops, four phones and thumb drives
  • Bradley met them at the hotel with Adrianne, who has a history of mental illness
  • A bomb squad was called to search the room as they were questioned outside
  • He said he was working for a secret government agency on a 'virus'
  • In the week beforehand, he received 3 parking tickets a mile from the site of Saturday's March For Our Lives protest in Boston
Francho Bradley - Adrianne Jennings
© Tewksburry Police DepartmentFrancho Bradley, 59, and his common law wife Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested in Boston on Saturday after police found their enormous haul of weapons which included rifles with sniper scopes, grenades, handguns and revolvers in a hotel room on the day of the March For Our Lives Protest.
A Texan couple have been arrested in Boston after police found a haul of weapons inside their hotel room including AR-15 and AK-47 rifles along with parking tickets which suggest they were surveilling the site of Saturday's March for Our Lives protest.

Francho Bradley, 59, and Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested at the Marriott Residence Inn in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, on Saturday after he called police to report someone breaking into his room.

He told police he was in his Jeep where he had surveillance video feed from his hotel room linked up to a laptop in his car but that it had suddenly cut out.

He said he worried someone had broken into the room and gotten their hands on his one weapon which he said he had hidden in a drawer.

Comment: This story doesn't make sense, but it has the same ingredients of the "mass shooting" stories - Mental illness, Lot's of Guns, claims of working for "Classified" Job, Actions that doesn't follow the "common sense" for the purported Crime etc.

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Google employees organize to create new policies to control "Internal Harassment Debate"

Paresh Dave
Reuters
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:50 UTC
Silhouettes of laptop and mobile device users
© REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationSilhouettes of laptop and mobile device users are seen next to a screen projection of Google logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018.
About 100 Google U.S. employees concerned about cyber bullying inside the company have organized into a group proposing new policies for conduct at the unit of Alphabet Inc, five people involved in the effort said in recent interviews.

Three current employees and two others helping to organize the group said it formed last fall. They said that among its proposals, which have not previously been reported in detail, are that Google should tighten rules of conduct for internal forums and hire staff to enforce them.
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Pro-Israel censorship: Facebook disables Gaza-based news agency Safa's account with 1.3 million followers


tele SUR
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
facebook
According to a Palestinian activist, this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted.

Facebook deleted account of Gaza-based Palestinian news agency Safa as part of a pro-Israeli policy to block and delete users accounts considered "inciteful." The agency is allegedly affiliated to the Palestinian political party Hamas; a claim Safa denies.

Safa's account was disabled along with the accounts of 10 of its editors Saturday, after 5 p.m local time. The agency's social media manager, who is keeping his identity secret, told the Jerusalem Post "We were totally surprised." The news agency didn't receive a warning or an explanation.

"We are now working to restore the account because 60 percent of the website's traffic comes through Facebook," the social media manager said. A reminder of Facebook's growing power in limiting or facilitating access to information.

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The very strange Skripal poisoning case has just become even stranger

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:00 UTC
Sergei and Yulia Skripal
Victims: Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33
British say deadly Novichok chemical 8 times more powerful than any other smeared on front door; Yulia Skripal conscious and talking; freeze Russians out of court proceedings

Those trying to make sense of the Skripal poisoning will have their work cut out following the news which have been coming out about it over the past week.

Firstly, the British police have announced that they now believe that Sergey and Yulia Skripal came into contact with the deadly chemical which poisoned them because it was smeared onto their front door.

This announcement has come after weeks of speculation during which a bewildering range of competing theories explaining how the poisoning supposedly took place have appeared in the British media.
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State Dept to introduce 'extreme vetting' of tourists/visas to US - social media history, contacts, possible ties to terrorism

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:53 UTC
Trump
© Yahoo
The State Department will publish new rules this week to require most visitors and immigrants to the U.S. to divulge their recent social media histories, carrying out one of the key security enhancements from President Trump's extreme vetting executive order.

Travelers would also be asked to list phone numbers, email addresses and international travel during the previous five years, and to detail any immigration problems they have had, whether with the U.S. or elsewhere. They also will be asked about potential family connections to terrorism.

In a striking move, would-be immigrants from countries where female genital mutilation is prevalent - mostly in Africa - would be directed to a website ensuring that they are aware the practice is largely illegal in the U.S.

The proposals are laid out in two documents slated to be published Friday, kicking off a comment period before the government finalizes the policies later this year.

"This upgrade to visa vetting is long-overdue, and it's appropriate to apply it to everyone seeking entry, because terrorism is a worldwide problem. The aim is to try to weed out people with radical or dangerous views," said Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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