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Double life of Antifa leader relied on anonymity to push radical and violent Communist goals

Jose Martin / Antifa


Editor's note: The subject of this story is being identified because he's pushed radical rhetoric and has advocated for politically-motivated violence from behind a mask. The Daily Caller News Foundation does not and will not publish truly private information such as home addresses.


Smash Racism DC organizer Jose Martin, also known as "Chepe," is a radical communist and Antifa leader operating in the U.S. He advocates for the violent overthrow of the government and for the murder of the rich and claims to have international involvement in left-wing movements.

Smash Racism DC is the Antifa group that protested in front of Fox News host Tucker Carlson's house and berated Sen. Ted Cruz at a restaurant until he and his wife were forced to leave. It's only one of the Antifa leader's radical left-wing projects.

But the agitator has made great efforts to separate his fanatical personas from a third identity, his legal name: Joseph "Jose" Alcoff. Under that identity, the 36-year-old has worked as a payday campaign manager for Americans for Financial Reform since 2016, where he advocates for reforms of predatory loans before members of Congress.

Comment: Anti-militarism, part of Cop Watch, Occupy Wall Street, etc. - and whatever other good intentions Alcoff may have are completely subverted by his all or nothing stance and pathological insistence on razing everything to the ground in a typically ideologically-possessed and revolutionary fashion.

Have a look at history Alcoff -- the first ones to advocate use of guillotines were eventually made to see those blades up close themselves.


No Entry

Over one million gun owners have refused to obey ban in New Jersey, no one giving up cartridge magazines

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Residents of New Jersey were given a deadline to turn in their gun magazines or become felons overnight, and so far, no one is complying.

Unless you've been under a rock lately, then you've likely seen the unprecedented push by all levels of government to separate law abiding Americans from their guns. No, this is not some conspiracy theory. The president himself ushered in a new level of gun control doing what his liberal predecessor even refused to do by banning bump stocks. However, as states across the country seek to limit the ability of innocent people to defend themselves, people are disobeying.

In May, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law that reduced the maximum capacity of ammunition magazines from 15 rounds to 10. Citizens immediately sued the government, citing the unconstitutional nature of the ban, but they failed.

Comment: In the wake of multiple mass shootings (many of them engineered), and a police state that anticipates mass resistance to subjugation - 'gun control' has been ramped up in the US across the board:


Cut

The transgender con: Many trans people later regret having their bodies surgically altered

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A growing number of “transgender” people, though once sure they wanted to live as the opposite sex, now wish they'd never had their bodies surgically altered.
"You fundamentally can't change sex.... Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists." These are not the words of a conservative organization or a fundamentalist preacher, but of former "transsexual" Alan Finch.

Having decided to "transition from male to female" at age 19, the Australian man later regretted the life-rending move and chose to once again live as his true sex approximately 15 years later. And he's not alone. A growing number of "transgender" people, though once sure they wanted to live as the opposite sex, now wish they'd never had their bodies surgically altered.

Exploring this phenomenon just today, the Federalist's Stella Morabito writes:

Everyone has regrets. Some of us have big regrets. Most everyone has some place to go to get help dealing with them.

Except for, say, a guy who had sex-change surgery and now would like to have his penis back. (The one God gave him.)

Morabito goes on to cite a poll showing that even 65 percent of people who've had cosmetic surgery - which is relatively minor body alteration - later regret the decision. As she writes, quoting Courtney Love on her lip enhancement procedure, "I just want the mouth God gave me back."

Yet many regretful "transsexuals" are afraid to open their mouths. Writing about how the scope of "transgender" de-transition desires is hidden, Morabito writes, "The transgender lobby actively polices and suppresses discussion of sex-change regret, and claims it's rare (no more than "5 percent.") [sic]. However, if you do decide to 'de-transition' to once again identify with the sex in your DNA, talking about it will get you targeted by trans activists." This is reminiscent of how the homosexual lobby has viciously attacked grown children of same-sex couples all because these people now oppose same-sex child-rearing, which The New American reported on earlier this month.

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Megaphone

Iconic London Tower guards don yellow vests for their first strike in 55 years

beefeater yellow vest
© AFP / Daniel Sorabji
The Tower of London's "Beefeater" guards staged a walkout in defiance of pension cuts, donning yellow vests in solidarity with French protesters as they picketed the iconic site - their first strike in 55 years.

The Beefeaters, whose red uniforms, black hats, and stoic expressions are instantly recognizable symbols of England, joined workers at other British landmarks in a walkout on Friday to protest against a new pension scheme that will see employees forced to contribute significantly more of their paychecks.

Clad in the yellow vests made famous over the past month by French protesters angered by President Emmanuel Macron's neoliberal economic policies, the Beefeaters - along with employees of Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, and other sites run by the Historic Royal Palaces group - formed a picket line outside the Tower of London after 91 percent of their union voted to strike for the first time in over half a century.

Comment: As with the fuel tax for the Yellow Vests in France, the pension reform for the Beefeaters (and ALL the other palace employees) was probably the last straw. It's very telling that even those working for the royals have gotten to the point where they feel they have to make it clear that the abuse of the working man by those in power has gone too far

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Bad Guys

Playing to the crowd: A fraudster who faked his stories for years got to be Germany's top reporter

Claas Relotius
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Claas Relotius
Germany has been rocked by a scandal involving one of the top reporters writing for the reputable Der Spiegel magazine, who turned out to be a fraudster. What made a fabulist into a star? Let's look at some of his stories.

Claas Relotius, the 'brilliant reporter'-turned-fabricator, carved his way to pages of some of the most prestigious German newspapers with curious, sentimental and touching human stories from everyday life. Although, some of these intimate private stories clearly had some political angle.

Comment: An excerpt of Der Spiegel's apology. One hopes they've learned a lesson about partisanship in journalism.
Anyone entering the atrium of the SPIEGEL headquarters at the Ericusgraben in Hamburg's Hafencity has, opposite the wall, the motto of SPIEGEL founder Rudolf Augstein in mind, in which the journalistic ideal of the house condenses in its most concise form: "Say what is . " That has always been the mission, and no one should consider the silver letters to be mere wall decoration or journalistic folklore. Say what is, that is, in the words of the Statute of 1949:
"All processed in the SPIEGEL and recorded news, information, facts must necessarily apply [...] corrections can not afford the SPIEGEL."
That is true. It is obligation. Word by word.

That's why the fall of Relotius marks a low point in the SPIEGEL's 70-year history . The self-imposed goals have been missed, far undercut their own claims, old values ​​hurt, how often exactly and in what ways, will still be determined. The young editor, who mimed the big reporter, cleared his office on Sunday and quit his contract on Monday.

[...]

"DER SPIEGEL apologizes to anyone who has appeared in the SPIEGEL with false quotes, invented details of their lives, in imaginary scenes, in fictional locations or otherwise in false contexts in articles by Claas Relotius. The house also apologizes to its readers, to all the esteemed colleagues in the industry, to the prize committees and juries, to the journalism schools, to the Rudolf Augsteins family, to business partners and customers. DER SPIEGEL will convene a commission , which will also include external officers, to clarify the events and to avoid recurrences."



Newspaper

The War on Terror was both 'won' AND 'lost' in a single edition of the Daily Telegraph

Daesh
© VOA
Either the War on Terror has been won and it's time to go after Russia, or there's a new wave of terrorists on their way to Europe. The Telegraph was a confusing read for those who picked up today's edition.

The British newspaper covered all its bases, by running stories declaring on the one hand "We've won the War on Terror," while on the other, that Europe is under threat from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.

Telegraph readers face a choice about which story they are ready to put most trust in. The warning of a terror threat to Europe posed by returning jihadis comes from the head of Interpol Jurgen Stock. He says there's a risk of jihadists returning from the Middle East to cause chaos in what he's calling "ISIL 2.0."


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Berlin: German court rejects accessory charges against 95yo 'guard' at Nazi camp where thousands perished

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© Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
Barbed wire is pictured in the former concentration camp Mauthausen.
A Berlin court has rejected a case against a former Nazi SS guard accused of accessory to the murder of tens of thousands inmates of the Nazi death camp in Mauthausen, where the 95-year-old was said to have served.

In an quite unusual decision, the German court said it does not see evidence to support charges of accessory to murder in the case of a man identified only as Hans Werner H. The suspect was accused of serving as an SS guard at the Mauthausen in Austria between October 1944 and May 1945 - a period when prosecutors say more than 36,000 people were killed there.

Although the suspect was not accused of any specific killings, he was still charged with accessory to murder as he allegedly knowingly and willingly facilitated the work of the death camp. The man himself admitted being a member of the SS but said he never set foot in the camp. Instead, he said he briefly served as a guard at an armaments factory in the Austrian city of Linz, which was linked to another Nazi camp.

NPC

Idiot celebrity Alyssa Milano mocks veteran's border wall crowdfunding effort, gets rightfully Twitter-flogged

Alyssa Milano mocks vet crowdfunding border wall
© Reuters / Danny Moloshok /Mike Segar
The actress-turned-Democratic firebrand was left red-faced as after she took aim at the crowdfunding campaign to build a border wall between the US and Mexico, now at over $13mn. Milano, one of the most prominent #MeToo movement stars, has been rallying behind virtually every anti-Trump and pro-Democratic cause.
Actress Alyssa Milano waded out of her depth as she slammed the border wall crowdfunding, implying the money should instead go to veterans. She was instantly reminded the campaign was started by a triple amputee vet.

The actress-turned-Democratic firebrand was left red-faced as after she took aim at the crowdfunding campaign to build a border wall between the US and Mexico, now at over $13mn. In a tweet on Thursday, Milano wrote: "Oh, yes! Let's #GoFundTheWall while not taking care of our veterans. Cool. Cool. Cool."


It was not long before the tweet ignited a firestorm on Twitter, as many noticed Milano hadn't done her homework, as the GoFundMe page was started by Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, a Purple Heart recipient, who lost three limbs in a rocket attack in Iraq.

Comment: Most Hollywood celebrities (with few notable exceptions) would do well to stick to their area of competence (assuming they have one).


Sherlock

US arrests Chinese national, charged with stealing trade secrets from Phillips 66

Hongjin Tan industrial espionage phillips 66
© Hongjin Tan / LinkedIn
Hongjin Tan, in a photo taken from his LinkedIn profile.
One day after the US officially declared war on Chinese "cyberwarriors", the DOJ announced late on Friday that 35-year-old Chinese national and legal permanent resident, Hongjin Tan, was arrested on Dec. 20 and charged with theft of trade secrets from his employer, an unidentified U.S. petroleum company.

"Hongjin Tan allegedly stole trade secrets related to a product worth more than $1 billion from his U.S.-based petroleum company employer, to use for the benefit of a Chinese company where he was offered employment," said Assistant Attorney General Demers. "The theft of intellectual property harms American companies and American workers. As our recent cases show, all too often these thefts involve the Chinese government or Chinese companies. The Department recently launched an initiative to protect our economy from such illegal practices emanating from China, and we continue to make this a top priority."

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AI stealth programming? Alexa blurts out 'Kill your foster parents', chats about sex in AI experiments

Alexa Just Ask
© REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelag
Alexa has passed the creepy line: Consumers might not realize that some of their most sensitive conversations are being recorded by Amazon’s devices, information that could be highly prized by criminals, law enforcement, marketers and others.
Millions of users of Amazon's Echo speakers have grown accustomed to the soothing strains of Alexa, the human-sounding virtual assistant that can tell them the weather, order takeout and handle other basic tasks in response to a voice command.

So a customer was shocked last year when Alexa blurted out: "Kill your foster parents."

Alexa has also chatted with users about sex acts. She gave a discourse on dog defecation. And this summer, a hack Amazon traced back to China may have exposed some customers' data, according to five people familiar with the events.

Alexa is not having a breakdown.

The episodes, previously unreported, arise from Amazon.com Inc's strategy to make Alexa a better communicator. New research is helping Alexa mimic human banter and talk about almost anything she finds on the internet. However, ensuring she does not offend users has been a challenge for the world's largest online retailer.

Comment: Amazon, like Google and Facebook has truly passed the creepy line: