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Two ex-Israeli soldiers sue colleague for revealing their Gaza crimes

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Former Israeli soldier testifies about crimes committed during 2014 Gaza war.

Two former Israeli soldiers filed a defamation lawsuit against a colleague for revealing crimes all three committed during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in 2014.

Israeli Channel 7 said the soldiers sued their former colleague Yaron Zeev for telling the NGO Breaking the Silence about the crimes and are demanding compensation of 2.6 million shekels ($790,000).

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Chess

Wisconsin Senate greenlights measure to kill governor's statewide mask mandate & ALL Covid-related emergency orders

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Wisconsin's Republican-controlled Senate has voted to end Governor Tony Evers' face mask order, with lawmakers arguing the government overstepped its authority by extending emergency mandates without approval from the legislature.

The state Senate voted 18-13 to pass the joint resolution on Tuesday, deeming the Democratic governor's emergency health orders "unlawful." The bill applies not only to Evers' most recent declaration last week, but to "all actions of the governor and all emergency orders" issued throughout the pandemic, including the statewide requirement for mask-wearing in public.

Wisconsin Republicans have blasted the emergency mandates as unconstitutional, with GOP state Senator Duey Stroebel arguing on Tuesday that "It is not ok or normal or inevitable or necessary to indefinitely suspend the lawmaking process."
There is no such thing as a perpetual emergency.
Before it becomes law, the measure must also pass through Wisconsin's State Assembly, where the GOP carries a 58-30 majority. The lower chamber is set to take up the bill on Thursday, which, if passed, would mark the first pandemic-related action taken by the legislature since April.

Dominoes

House GOP wants to add Facebook, Twitter to Parler probe of Capitol siege

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Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee want any FBI probe into conservative social network Parler and its involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege to also include a look into Facebook and Twitter.

In a letter to Intel chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the lawmakers say the tech giants were developing a growing alliance with Democrats to "muzzle certain viewpoints, opinions, and perspectives," Fox News reported Monday.

"Like you, we were disturbed and angered by the riot and we believe those responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," they wrote.

"But casting blame on a single social media company known for its conservative username while simply ignoring other social media companies known for sympathizing with liberal causes is blatantly and overtly partisan."

Handcuffs

Pro-Trump 'WalkAway' campaign founder Brandon Straka arrested by FBI on federal charges linked to Capitol riot

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Brandon Straka
Brandon Straka, founder of a campaign encouraging Democrats to flee their party, has been arrested on three federal charges over his alleged role in the Capitol Hill riot, after the FBI followed up on a tip from a relative.

The 'WalkAway' organizer was taken into custody on Monday after being charged on three counts related to the unrest in DC on January 6, including impeding a police officer during civil disorder, knowingly entering or remaining on restricted grounds without authority, and engaging in disorderly conduct "with intent to disturb a hearing of Congress," according to the FBI's Omaha field office.

While an eight-page criminal complaint against Straka does not accuse the conservative activist of entering the Capitol during the riot, it claims he was part of a crowd rallying at the entrance of the building and urged other protesters to go inside, all of which was captured in footage posted online.

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Red Flag

US-based nonprofit sues Apple to REMOVE Telegram over failure to censor 'hate speech,' cites Parler crackdown as example - Update: Google sued as well

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The Coalition for a Safer Web, a nonprofit founded by an ex-US ambassador, has sued Apple, demanding it deletes Telegram from its store, arguing that the app is being used to "incite extreme violence" ahead of the inauguration.

The Washington-based nonprofit and its president Marc Ginsberg, who served as US ambassador to Morocco from 1994 to 1998 and was deputy senior adviser to the US president on Middle East Policy (1978-1981), argue in the newly filed federal lawsuit that Apple has failed to hold Telegram accountable for violating its terms of service.

The complaint, filed on Sunday with the US District Court for Northern California, accuses Telegram of allowing anti-Semites, white supremacists and other extremists to thrive on its platform, with Apple purportedly turning a blind eye to the fact.

"Telegram currently serves as the preferred neo-Nazi/white nationalist communications channel, fanning anti-Semitic and anti-black incitement during the current wave of protests across America," the lawsuit argues. It alleges that the privacy-focused messaging app is poised to become an even bigger breeding ground for extremist content as users "migrate to Telegram" after Big Tech's crackdown on Parler, which was booted from Apple and Google stores for providing a platform for some pro-Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol.

Comment: Update 1/26: Another lawsuit was filed by the same group, this time calling for a judge to force Google to drop Telegram from its App Store. They are both realistically frivolous lawsuits that should be dropped by the court instantly so that it can busy itself with actual work, but sadly the climate in the US is to restrict free speech. That is the world the liberals want right now.


Dominoes

Coronavirus setting back the Woke's attempts to 'diversify' women in the workplace

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Companies need female employees to help them bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and must not let gender equality slip off their agenda due to the tough business climate, a virtual meeting of global figures heard on Monday.

Women have been hit hard by the pandemic's economic impact, with the International Labour Organization warning last year that COVID-19 threatened to wipe out "modest progress" on workplace in equality in recent decades.

Business leaders, campaigners and politicians told Monday's online meeting organised by the World Economic Forum that women risk losing hard-won gains at work.

"I have heard many organisations are saying 'Well, we have so many important issues that diversity really isn't something we can focus on right now'," said Laura Liswood, secretary-general at the Council of Women World Leaders.

Comment: This should make it clear that the people running the show really don't care about diversity and women in the workplace. They created a fake pandemic that destroyed many women's businesses and locking down cities means most working women have to stay home to take care of children that aren't attending school.


Fire

Here are all the riots that Democrats and the media are choosing to ignore

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This narrative and behavior by the corporate press is still being carried through the beginning of Joe Biden's presidency and is expected to continue as they work to achieve their political goals.

The corporate media and the Democrats have a history of ignoring and downplaying destructive and deadly riots in exchange for coverage that fits their political agenda.

For example, while the lawless riots that followed George Floyd's death caused more than $2 billion in damages to businesses, churches, federal buildings, and other downtown structures in cities such as Minneapolis, Portland, Atlanta, D.C., and Kenosha, Wisconsin, journalists and politicians simply wrote off the arson, looting, vandalism, and other crimes as justified actions after years of racial oppression and police brutality.

"The common theme that ties all of this together is an expression of anger and frustration over what people feel like has become an all-too-familiar story," said CNN's Omar Jimenez, as a chyron reading "Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting" rolled across footage of burning buildings in Kenosha.

This narrative and behavior by the corporate press is still being carried through the beginning of Joe Biden's presidency and is expected to continue as they work to achieve their political goals. Here are all of the riots that Democrats and the corporate media are choosing to ignore.

Comment: The crazed and riotous Left will likely one day meet a response from that US's silent majority - whose actions will make everything we've seen thus far look like a Sunday picnic. And then God help those who've caught the ideologically motivated and poisonous mind-virus.

And then God help the entire country as it implodes on itself.


Megaphone

Rupert Murdoch condemns 'awful woke orthodoxy'

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The media mogul Rupert Murdoch denounced an "awful woke orthodoxy" and declared, "I'm far from done," while accepting a lifetime achievement award this weekend.

Mr. Murdoch, 89, made the remarks in a prerecorded video shown on Saturday during a virtual event for the United Kingdom nonprofit that honored him, the Australia Day Foundation. The video was shared on the website of The Herald Sun, a newspaper in Melbourne owned by Mr. Murdoch.

The video is noteworthy because Mr. Murdoch, despite exerting enormous influence over the global media landscape as the executive chairman of News Corp, has been relatively quiet publicly in recent years. He has been weathering the pandemic in his home in the Cotswolds in England, and received a Covid-19 vaccination in December.

In the video, Mr. Murdoch, standing next to a bottle of Australian red wine and wearing a medal, thanked the foundation for the award in the video but said his career "that began in a smoke-filled Adelaide newsroom is still in motion."

USA

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Censorship and oppression threaten America's trademark standards of democracy and open debate

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Watch as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. addresses health freedom advocates gathered in Copenhagen to strategize ways to maintain human rights on a global basis


On the eve of the 57th anniversary of his uncle John F. Kennedy's assassination, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. addressed health freedom advocates gathered in Copenhagen to strategize ways to maintain human rights on a global basis.

Robert Kennedy said that when Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee asked then-President Kennedy what he would like to have written on his tombstone, Kennedy replied, "He Kept the Peace."

Attention

Tucker Carlson: Deep State using military to send 'power' message to American people

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This is actually a week-old monologue from The Tuck. It's worth listening to, however, if you haven't yet. Carlson is well known now as one of the last remaining sane voices on US mainstream news. In this show he warns that the Establishment is preparing to launch a 'War on Terror' on its own citizens. The Biden regime is going to be one long dark winter...