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British intel agencies' interference 'only reason' ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner was locked up


RT
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:20 UTC
Guantanamo Bay protest sign
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An ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate has said British intelligence agencies are the "only reason" he was locked up in the controversial facility. It follows revelations that the UK was more involved in US torture than previously known.

Moazzam Begg, who spent two years in Guantanamo, said that British interference was the only reason for his detention in the prison, which was established by former US president George W. Bush as part of the 'War on Terror' after the 9/11 attacks.

"The first instance in which an MI5 agent saw me was when my hands were tied behind my back, shackled to my legs, and a hood was placed over my head while Americans pointed guns towards me," Begg said.

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'Bloody' protesters turn Apple store into ER ward to denounce tax evasion


RT
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 13:49 UTC
Hospital ward
Dozens of activists turned a Paris-based Apple Store into an emergency ward complete with x-rays, surgeons, bloody patients and even a waiting room to denounce tax evasion

The elaborate demonstration, staged by the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizen Action (ATTAC), on Saturday was in protest of Apple's tax evasion practices and their impact on social services like the public health institutions in France.
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Feminist war on humanity: Swedish law equating sex without 'explicit consent' to rape comes into force


RT
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 08:49 UTC
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A Swedish law which states that sex without explicit consent constitutes rape came into effect on Sunday. Rape charges may now be applied even when there are no threats or violence involved.


Comment: And how will they prove explicit consent, or lack thereof? What counts as 'explicit consent' and will it hold up in a court of law?


The Swedish government, which proposed the bill in 2017, explains that the sexual consent legislation is based on the obvious fact that sex must be voluntary; if not, then it is illegal. "A rape conviction will no longer require the use of violence or threats by the perpetrator, or that a victim's particularly vulnerable situation was exploited."

The Scandinavian county, which already has extensive sexual assault laws, has also increased the minimum penalty for 'gross rape' and 'gross rape of a minor' from four to five years in prison. According to the latest official figures, around 7,000 sexual offences were reported in Sweden in 2017, which is a 10-percent increase from 2016.

Comment: Laws like this lead to the result that people engaging in sex will need to get notarized consent, so it's legally admissible evidence in a court of law, at every step of the process.

Obviously, the actual result will be that women have unlimited power to accuse men of non-consensual sex, now classified as rape, without any evidence beyond their word and can involve the state in every sexually active person's life. Thus, Feminism achieves its goals of empowerment through covert means by controlling the apparatus of the state through subjective legislation. For more information:

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Delusional Michael Moore: Most Americans are very liberal and Trump is the devil

Joshua Paladino
Liberty Headlines
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:21 UTC
Michael Moore
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In eight minutes on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Thursday night, film director Michael Moore called President Trump the devil, said the majority of Americans are liberal, and called for the abolition of the Electoral College.

Moore showed a clip of his "documentary" on Trump, "Fahrenheit 11/9," where he visits Mar-a-Lago and confronts the president, who he called the "Devil."

"Michael Moore, were you civil?" Colbert asked.

"I am as civil as any Eagle Scout, Catholic altar boy could be when confronted with the devil," he responded.

"What do you make of these calls for civility?"

"The calls that are coming from the uncivil, asking Democrats, who are usually so wimpy and weak and, 'Oh, it's okay, we'll take half of universal health care, we don't need the whole thing.' That's how our side sounds all the time. We're constantly giving in, and then a few people want to stand up and say, 'No, I've had enough. That's it,'" Moore said, ignoring the popular Saul Alinsky radical playbook for the Left, Rules for Radicals.

Comment: This is the result of living in a liberal echo chamber. Moore is completely out of touch with the average American.

Liberal media's worst nightmare: Poll shows vast majority of Americans agree with Trump on immigration

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Fmr CNN producer rips Acosta: You're 'truly embarrassing' and confirm anti-Trump media bias

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:30 UTC
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Jim Acosta: Shameless grandstander
Leah covered this earlier this afternoon, but CNN's Jim Acosta once again embarrassed himself at a White House event, where we celebrated the six-month anniversary of the tax reform package becoming law; a law that has formed the foundation for our rapid economic growth. As he left the podium, Acosta shouted if the president would "stop calling the press the enemy of the people."

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The entrapment and long captivity of Julian Assange

Israel Shamir
The UNZ Review
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:07 UTC
Israel Shamir and Julian Assange

Israel Shamir and Julian Assange
These long summer days are good for forest walks or swimming; in the evenings, I read classics with my 10 year old son who otherwise spends too much time at video games. This time, it happens to be the Odyssey, the poem I translated some 25 years ago, and yesterday I came to read Book IV on Menelaus bewailing his comrades who fell at Troy or on the perilous way home.

And for me it was the time to beweep my dear comrades-in-arms who have suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. So many of you, who went fighting the beast, are dead, or exiled, or imprisoned, like my Spanish publisher Don Pedro Varela and the American researcher Barrett Brown. Or fired from a university like Julio Pino, professor of Kent State.

And then Menelaus said: Much as I weep for all my men, for none of all these comrades do I grieve as much as for this one. The one is Ulysses who has been detained for years on the island of Ogygia by Calypso the Nymph.

It brought to my mind the fate of Julian Assange, this modern Odysseus, who has been held in his luxurious Knightsbridge prison for years. Actually, for full six years, as today, as I write it, is the anniversary of his incarceration in the Ecuador Embassy.

So many epithets used by Homer for the King of Ithaca fit Julian to a tee! He is wise and noble, resourceful and cunning, wily and crafty, brilliant and steadfast, but also evil-starred man of woe.

Comment: The arbitrary, indefinite detention of Julian Assange

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#MeToo for women only? Feminists group under fire for defending FEMALE professor accused of sexual harassment


RT
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:57 UTC
Avital Ronell metoo harrassment

Avital Ronell
A group of prominent feminists is facing backlash over a letter they signed, defending an academic accused of sexual harassment because she is an "important figure" in feminist literary theory.

In what started off as humdrum 'Me Too' story with a twist - 30-year-old male Ph.D. student accuses 66-year-old female New York University (NYU) professor of sexual harassment - has now reached peak internet gossip level, after 50 academics, including several influential feminists, defended the scholar.

Comment: So when Title IX finally backfires on the libtards who applied it with such abandon, they suddenly now have concerns for a cautious approach, presumption of innocence and due process? Wow.

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Facebook technology can turn phone mic on during ads...but they won't use it

Rachel England
engadget
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:09 UTC
facebook app
© Getty
Facebook has repeatedly denied tapping into phones microphones for targeted advertising, but just because it isn't doesn't mean it can't. According to Metro, Facebook has applied for a controversial patent for software that will allow smartphones to begin recording when they hear secret messages hidden in TV ads.

As reported by Mashable, Facebook could embed high-pitched audio signals in broadcast content that -- while inaudible to humans -- could be deciphered by smartphones, triggering them into recording "ambient audio" and sending it back to Facebook. So you're watching TV, an advert comes on, then Facebook gets a recording of your response to that advert -- assuming you respond at all and aren't just sitting there with the glazed expression prompted by most TV ads.
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Nine people taken to hospital after stabbing in Boise, Idaho - six are children


Idaho News
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:11 UTC
Picture of a knife.
© David Moir / Reuters
The Boise Police Department says nine people are in the hospital after they were stabbed at the Wylie Lane Apartments Saturday night. Four of them have life-threatening injuries.

Ada County Dispatchers received a call about a man with a knife around 8:45pm in the area of State Street and Wylie Lane.

Investigators say the suspect tried to take off, but officers have taken him into custody by 8:50pm. They say the suspect is a 30 year old man, but have not released his name. Boise Police Detectives are interviewing him.

Boise Police Chief Bill Bones says some of the victims are members of Boise's refugee community. He says the victims "range in age." Some of them were found inside the apartment complex, while others were found in the nearby parking lot.

Comment: Update:
Boise police have identified the man arrested for a stabbing that injured nine people Saturday night, including six children.

Police say Timmy Kinner, 30, of Los Angeles, was arrested and charged with nine counts of felony aggravated battery and six counts of felony injury to a child.

Officers say 4 of the nine people have life-threatening injuries. Some of the victims are members of the refugee community. Police say Kinner is not a refugee.

Investigators say the preliminary evidence is showing that Kinner was a temporary resident at an apartment complex at State Street and Wylie Lane, where the stabbings happened.

Police say he was asked to leave the apartments Friday.

The motive fro the stabbings is still being investigated.

Police say there will be a press conference Sunday afternoon with the latest information.


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Small group of protesters stopped as Hong Kong marks 21st anniversary of handover to China


The Guardian
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 16:03 UTC
Hong Kong Carrie Lam
© Vincent Yu/AP
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, in red, at a ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China.


Police intervene to protect flag-raising ceremony attended by territory's leader Carrie Lam

Police in Hong Kong stopped about 20 pro-democracy protesters from getting near a flag-raising ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China.

The protesters on Sunday carried a coffin symbolising a death of democracy and chanted slogans against one-party rule in China, demands for universal suffrage in Hong Kong and mainland China, and freedom for Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

The ceremony, held beside Victoria harbour, continued uninterrupted, with the Beijing-backed Hong Kong chief executive, Carrie Lam, in attendance. At a reception later on Sunday, she expressed confidence in Hong Kong's future without mentioning any politically sensitive topics.

Comment: Twenty protesters? Contrary to what The Guardian seems to suggest, it sounds like people in Hong Kong are quite happy with China!

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