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Aaron Rich refusing to authorize Wikileaks to reveal info on murdered brother Seth

Alicia Powe
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:38 UTC

Murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich

Former President Obama's White House Counsel, representing the brother of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich, are "desperately" working to obstruct WikiLeaks from revealing the truth of how it obtained troves of DNC and Clinton campaign emails during the 2016 election, an attorney who's been subpoenaed by Rich's legal team warns.

Aaron Rich, the brother of Seth Rich, filed a lawsuit in April in US District Court in the District of Columbia, against the Ed Butowsky, a wealth management and financial adviser who financed a private investigator to help the Rich family find Seth's killer(s); Butowsky's attorney, Ty Clevenger; Matt Couch and his media company, America First Media; and the conservative-leaning newspaper the Washington Times for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy, among other actions.

Comment: One might ask if anyone is "leaning" on brother Aaron.

Former prisoner of conscience condemns Amnesty International for its part in worsening Nicaragua's current crisis

Camilo E. Mejia
teleSUR
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:26 UTC

© Reuters
An open letter to Amnesty International by former Prisoner of Conscience Camilo E. Mejia on the violence gripping his native Nicaragua.

Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth.

I open this letter quoting Donatella Rovera, who at the time of speaking had been one of Amnesty International's field investigators for more than 20 years:

"Conflict situations create highly politicized and polarized environments... Players and interested parties go to extraordinary lengths to manipulate or manufacture 'evidence' for both internal and external consumption. A recent - though by no means the only - example is provided by the Syrian conflict in what is often referred to as the 'YouTube war,' with a myriad techniques employed to manipulate video footage of incidents which occurred at other times in other places - including in other countries - and present them as 'proof' of atrocities committed by one or other parties to the conflict in Syria."

French police claim to have thwarted 5 terrorist attacks this year, including plots against gay and swinger clubs

RT
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:41 UTC

French authorities have foiled five terrorist attacks this year, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb revealed, with local media reporting that, in at least two cases, radicalized suspects had plotted to target gay and swinger groups.

Two alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) radicals, aged 21 and 22, were arrested in the eastern Paris suburb of Seine-et-Marne, were indicted on Tuesday by an anti-terror judge for "criminal terrorist conspiracy" and remain in custody, pending trial. France's intelligence service DGSI managed to foil their alleged planned attack by monitoring the online chatter of an alleged jihadist cell, Collomb revealed on Thursday.

"This case began in January, when two individuals exchanged regularly with Daesh [IS]," the Interior Minister explained, speaking at Dinéault gendarmerie school near of Châteaulin. "We listen a lot to what happens on the Internet," he added, praising the use of electronic surveillance.

During the raid on the suspects' apartment, authorities discovered "combat knives and components that would create explosives," as well as IS-related material. "It's the fifth time this year that such a preventive action has permitted security forces to foil what would have been a violent act," the Interior Ministry said, without offering any details.

Comment: Keep in mind though, that most attacks turn out to have been carried out by people who were either on intelligence watch-lists, or were 'radicalized in prison', then let out...

New Zealand to tax tourists as surge in visitors puts pressure on infrastructure

Yahoo News
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

Tourism is a key pillar of the New Zealand economy and the new tax is expected to raise up to NZ$80 million in its first year, which will be split between tourism infrastructure and conservation initiatives.

Tourists to New Zealand are to be charged a special tax, under new government plans announced Friday to deal with the growing influx of holidaymakers coming from overseas.

Visitor numbers have surged by nearly a third in the past three years to 3.8 million in the 12 months to April -- almost as big as the country's population.

"This rapid growth has impacted on the costs and availability of publicly-provided infrastructure," tourism minister Kelvin Davis said.

"Many regions are struggling to cope and urgently need improved infrastructure, from toilet facilities to carparks."

Israeli West Bank outpost is evacuated without a shot, even as settlers throw stones

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:12 UTC

There is a big difference between how Jewish-Israeli settler outposts are evacuated, and how Israelis imagine a Palestinian outpost being evacuated, if it ever came to be.

Let's start with the Jewish-Israeli settler outpost. On Tuesday, 15 homes in the West Bank settler outpost called Netiv Ha'avot were evacuated, following a 21-month old ruling from the Israeli High Court of Justice, affirming that they were built on privately-owned Palestinian land. Under international law, all Israeli West Bank settlements are illegal and considered a "flagrant violation under international law" - but Israel has a "selective" view of what is legal in this respect, and considers some settlements to be legal if they are built on land that the state has confiscated.

Times of Israel reports how "some 2,500 Border Police officers were deployed to ensure the demolition of the homes was carried out peacefully". And it is important to note, these officers are almost all unarmed. It's worth looking at those pictures. Officers in t-shirts, backpacks, caps really look more as if they're geared up for a hike in the hills south of Jerusalem, rather than prepared for any sort of violent confrontation. It's very clear, that they are dressed up in order to give a signal: "we are not here to fight with you".

Stabbing attack at Germany's main railway station kills 1, injures 3

Sputnik
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 20:04 UTC

The incident took place on Friday, the Bild newspaper reports, citing local police. An attacker killed a 25-year-old woman and injured several others, subsequently fleeing the scene.

As the media noted, the police ruled out that the stabbing was a terrorist attack, saying it was a domestic assault.

The attacker has fled the crime scene and police is now searching for him. A city resident reports that Munich's main railway station was closed due to the incident.

TWEET: What's happened at Munich main railway station? According to the announcement and screen message, the trains do not stop there, as police operation is underway

News Corp CEO calls for social media censorship to 'protect professional journalism'

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC

Speaking at an event on social media and its impact on the news industry, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson called for social media platforms to "protect professional journalism" and be subject to an "algorithm review board" made up of "experts."

Social platforms, said Thomson, have "a responsibility to project professional journalism, and cultivate a culture of compliance so that the real could be separated from the unreal and the surreal."

"If your business model is to commodify content - which is an egregious mistake because there is a hierarchy of content - and then allow a search engine or a social platform to be easily manipulated by bad actors then you're failing a basic test of compliance."

"The pervasiveness of the largest digital platforms makes Standard Oil look like a corner gas station."

Comment: Protecting the official versions of events is more to the point as mainstream 'journalists' destroyed journalistic credibility years ago. The internet has made it much more difficult for MSM purveyors of fake news to propagandize without redress, thus the calls for outright censorship are becoming increasingly strident.

American elite liberals aren't looking to defeat you, they want to destroy you

Derek Hunter
Townhall
Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:03 UTC

Mention Ronald Reagan to a liberal and you need to prepare for a freak out. The man passed away 14 years ago and hasn't occupied the Oval Office in nearly 30, but his name still has the ability to elicit rage from leftists simply because he existed.

And so it goes with the activist wing of the political left - they are like the Terminator, unable or unwilling to stop, even long after the focus of their anger has passed on. That's because liberals don't have any interest in defeating conservative ideals, they want to destroy conservatives for daring to hold them.

The Knesset has made apartheid official: Declares that Israeli 'democracy' is for Jews only

Yossi Gurvitz
Mondoweiss
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:51 UTC

In a rare act, the Presidency of the Knesset (a ten-member group representing most parties) last week disqualified a bill moved by Israeli Palestinian parliamentarians from coming to a debate or vote. The bill in question was named "Basic Law: Israel [is a] State of All Its Citizens."

As the names hints, the bill would have declared that Israel belongs not to its Jews but to all its residents. The Knesset Presidency decided the bill was too dangerous to come to a vote.

The bill was put forward by the Joint List, a mega-party composed of three Israeli-Palestinian parties, forced to run together because the Zionist majority hiked the percentage of votes needed for a seat in the Knesset to 4%, which none of the parties would pass on its own, in an explicit attempt to ban them.

When #MeToo goes too far: Film crews for Netflix not allowed to look at anyone for longer than 5 seconds

Christopher Hooton
The Independent
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:46 UTC

Netflix has introduced new anti-harassment training in the wake of the #metoo movement that rocked Hollywood and seriously disrupted production on its House of Cards show.

New rules imposed on set reportedly include no looking at anyone for longer than five seconds, no lingering hugs, no flirting and no asking for a colleague's phone number.

"Everyone was spoken to about #MeToo," an on-set runner currently working on the new season of Black Mirror told The Sun.

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Society's Child

Aaron Rich refusing to authorize Wikileaks to reveal info on murdered brother Seth

Former prisoner of conscience condemns Amnesty International for its part in worsening Nicaragua's current crisis

French police claim to have thwarted 5 terrorist attacks this year, including plots against gay and swinger clubs

New Zealand to tax tourists as surge in visitors puts pressure on infrastructure

Israeli West Bank outpost is evacuated without a shot, even as settlers throw stones

Stabbing attack at Germany's main railway station kills 1, injures 3

News Corp CEO calls for social media censorship to 'protect professional journalism'

American elite liberals aren't looking to defeat you, they want to destroy you

The Knesset has made apartheid official: Declares that Israeli 'democracy' is for Jews only

When #MeToo goes too far: Film crews for Netflix not allowed to look at anyone for longer than 5 seconds

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