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Facebook refused to remove flagged and illegal child pornography and ISIS videos - until questioned by UK press

Tyler O'Neil
PJ Media
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Facebook
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Britain's The Times reported that Facebook refused to remove potentially illegal terrorist and child pornography content despite it being flagged by users. This content potentially puts the social media giant at risk of criminal prosecution.

"Last month The Times created a fake profile on Facebook to investigate extremist content," Alexi Mostrous, the paper's head of investigations, reported Thursday. "It did not take long to come across dozens of objectionable images posted by a mix of jihadists and those with a sexual interest in children."

Mostrous reported that a Times reporter posed as an IT professional in his thirties, befriended more than 100 supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS), and joined groups promoting lewd or pornographic images of children. He then "flagged" many of the images and ISIS videos.

Facebook moderators reportedly kept online pro-jihadist posts including one praising ISIS attacks "from London to Chechnya to Russia and now Bangladesh in less than 48 hours," promising to bring war "in the heart of your homes." The site's moderators also refused to remove an official news bulletin posted by the Islamic State praising the slaughter of 91 "Christian warriors" in the Palm Sunday bombings of two Egyptian churches.
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Leaked screenshots reveal alt-right provocateur, Jason Kessler, did nothing as car attacks were planned on his server


The Free Thought Project
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 18:11 UTC
charlottesville attack
Alt-Right Leader Jason Kessler Watched While Car Attacks Were Planned on His Server.

Kessler's recruits openly discussed using cars as weapons to "exterminate" protesters.

Alt-Right Exposed - Jason Kessler, former Occupy Wall Street coordinator and confirmed leftist provocateur, ran a Discord server where white supremacists discussed armed attacks and running protesters over with vehicles.


Comment: 'Unite the Right' organizer Jason Kessler ousted as provocateur Obama supporter from Occupy movement


Here is a screenshot from the Discord server that James Kessler (MadDimension) ran. In the upper right corner, you can see that he is logged in and is moderating the chat, while they plan.

One member, "AltCelt(IL)" posted a picture of a large bus, running over people in a crowd. He then stated:

"This will be us."
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Teen killed by cop after flashing his brights - judge approves excessive force lawsuit

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 18:04 UTC
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It was announced in 2015 that the officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Deven Guilford for flexing his rights, would not be charged with any crimes. His family was devastated. However, after a long fight in the courts, a judge ruled that the federal lawsuit against Sgt. Jonathan Frost can proceed to trial on two claims of excessive force.

As the Lansing State Journal reported:
Judge Paul Maloney heard oral arguments Tuesday from attorneys for the family of Deven Guilford and the attorney representing Sgt. Jonathan Frost. Frost's attorney had previously filed a motion for summary judgment, asking Maloney to dismiss the case.

Maloney's order issued Friday afternoon dismissed claims for unlawful stop, seizure, arrest, and excessive force prior to Frost's decision to use his stun gun on Guilford. However, Maloney allowed two claims of excessive force to proceed, writing that "factual disputes" about what transpired after Frost fired his stun gun, and later, his service weapon, can be resolved by a jury.

Maloney detailed those "factual disputes" in his 38-page opinion and was pointed in his criticism, addressing what he described as inconsistencies between Frost's account and the evidence. He added that a jury could find that some of what Frost says occurred was "almost inconceivable."
That fateful night in 2015, Deven was traveling along the road and flashed his lights at an officer because his headlights were so bright that they nearly made Deven run off the road. He was then pulled over by Sgt. Frost of the Eaton County Sheriff's Office, who stopped the young man for no other reason than the fact that he flashed his lights.
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The New Prince: What does Charlottesville teach us about America's class consciousness?

Haneul Na'avi
The Duran
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:27 UTC
People receive first-aid after a car accident ran into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville
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The attacks in Charlottesville raises a lot of important questions about the nature of class consciousness in America. Here's what we have learned.
The Romans never liked the dictum we constantly hear from the wise men of our day, that time will take care of things. - Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
The aftermath of the Unite the Right protests in Charlottesville, VA raises very important questions about class consciousness in the United States.

Following the Occupy Movement - a subsidy of the Open Society Foundation - and January Women's March, also linked to over 50 Soros organizations, disturbing trend have revealed that American "class consciousness" is merely the work of billionaire reactionaries.

The 11-12 August rally featured two eclectic camps, whose interactions led to the catastrophe which killed 32 year-old Heather Hayer and two police officers.
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Vietnam War era shell explodes killing 6 family members


RT
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:21 UTC
US Air Force bombs dropped during the Vietnam War
© Jorge Silva / ReutersUS Air Force bombs dropped during the Vietnam War.
Six people in Vietnam were killed when a wartime era bomb exploded in the nation's Khanh Hoa province on Friday and struck a residential building, according to local reports.

The incident took place in a mountainous area close to To Hap town, with Baomoi reporting that the victims have been identified as members of the same family. Four children are among the dead.

According to the VN Express, one of the residents of the property had earlier collected the dormant explosive, thought to be a shell or mortar, in order to harvest it for scrap metal.

RT.com has contacted the Vietnamese local government for further details.

Images of the aftermath show emergency personnel transporting an injured person from the scene on a stretcher.
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zakharova says good cigar enough to bring down stress


TASS
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:59 UTC
Maria Zakharova
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A good cigar is enough to relieve stress, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with Tatler, adding however that this happens barely once a year.

"A cigars helps relax, indeed," she said. "I have never flirted with alcohol - neither in university, nor later on. I can have a glass of champagne, that's all.
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Return of the Inquisition: American politics unhinged and not because of Trump

Rex Murphy
National Post
Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:10 UTC
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There is a madness running through American politics now. It is in the most fevered, irrational, and paranoid time of any in the modern era.

I read somewhere recently that it is one of the benefits of great books that they give us solace in moments of stress and anxiety. Great quotations pop into the mind during periods of grief and allay our misery. More pertinently, a book like The Handmaid's Tale helps us "understand" Donald Trump and where he's taking America. Literature, in other words, supplies high-toned sympathy cards in private crisis, and offers fancy elaborations of our flimsy predispositions during periods of public turmoil.

Literature, of course, does neither. A line from the Ode to the Nightingale will not help you get through real grief, and neither poetry nor prose-even of the highest accomplishment-will stay the progress of real world events or mitigate their great horrors. 1984 did not slow the advent of Mao, Pol Pot, the Taliban, or ISIS. Nor did the high rhetoric of Yeats' The Second Coming avert any of the miserable outbreaks of fanatic politics it appeared to warn against. Literature is not a security blanket, or an early warning system.
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One dead, several injured in Mexico gas pipeline explosion (VIDEO)


RT
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:22 UTC
Gas explosion
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A massive explosion has rocked a Pemex gas pipeline in the Mexican state of Veracruz, killing one and injuring several people.

The Veracruz Secretariat of Civil Protection confirmed on Twitter that one person died and five others were injured in the incident.
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Robert E. Lee's descendants denounce Charlottesville violence, messages of intolerance and hate

Zach Schonfeld
Newsweek
Wed, 16 Aug 2017 01:07 UTC
Charlottesville
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Three days after Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence and racial unrest, the family of Robert E. Lee is denouncing the white nationalist groups who rallied and marched to preserve a statue of the long-dead Civil War general.

"There's no place for that," Robert E. Lee V tells Newsweek, referring to the white supremacist protesters who carried torches and marched through Charlottesville on Friday. "There's no place for that hate."

The statue of Lee, which has stood in Charlottesville since 1924, is now at the center of a racially charged conflict that has gripped the city and resulted in one woman's death. In February, the local city council decided to remove the statue from the park, noting that for many people, such Confederate monuments are "painful reminders of the violence and injustice of slavery and other harms of white supremacy that are best removed from public spaces." In May, white supremacist Richard Spencer organized a demonstration in support of the monument, and on Friday evening, a large group of torch-bearing white nationalist marchers descended on Charlottesville to protest the decision to remove the statue.

Lee, a great-great-grandson of the Confederate hero, and his sister, Tracy Lee Crittenberger, issued a written statement on Tuesday condemning the "hateful words and violent actions of white supremacists, the KKK or neo-Nazis."
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'Free speech rally' & counter protest kick off in Boston, Mass


RT
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:55 UTC
Free speech rally
© Stephanie Keith / ReutersA large crowd of people gathers ahead of the Boston Free Speech Rally in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., August 19, 2017.
A 'Free Speech rally,' which some fear includes white supremacists, and a counter-protest are being held in Boston. Police have tightened security, even banning poles for flags and signs, to prevent a repeat of the violence seen in Charlottesville.

The rally is being staged by the Boston Free Speech Movement, which has distanced itself from far-right groups, stating that it is "dedicated to peaceful rallies" and is "in no way affiliated with the Charlottesville rally," which turned deadly a week ago.

Counter-protesters said the Free Speech Rally accommodates "white supremacists," before the demonstration even began, and called for it to be opposed.

"White Nationalists are converging on Boston Common to reinforce their white supremacist ideology and attempt to intimidate queer and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, POC) communities," a statement on the counter-protest Facebook page reads.

Comment: See also: ACLU no longer supports hate groups 'armed to the teeth' with guns and weapons during rallies

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