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Amnesty International's damning report of violence by France's police on protesters, journalists and children


Amnesty International
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:40 UTC
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French authorities must exercise restraint when policing demonstrations expected on Saturday and avoid any repetition of the injuries caused by their extremely heavy-handed response to protests by the "gilets jaunes" and high school movements, said Amnesty International.

Police used rubber bullets, sting-ball grenades and tear gas against largely peaceful protesters who did not threaten public order and the organisation has documented numerous instances of excessive use of force by police.

"As the clouds of tear gas lift, a clearer picture has emerged which shows police have used excessive force against largely peaceful protesters, journalists and even children," said Rym Khadhraoui, Amnesty International's West Europe Researcher.

Comment: The evidence is damning and yet this report doesn't even cover the agent provocateurs (who seem to be present at every major demonstration), police mobbing and battering unarmed protesters or the crimes of the mainstream media outlets caught doctoring footage, but then, with Macron running the show, clearly his minions are taking their cue from their master.

See also: Man pepper-sprayed in face by Belgian police collapses, left by wayside

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A woman is sprayed with teargas by the riot police officer in Brussels as the French protest movement spread to neighbouring Belgium.


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Journalist wins FOIA appeal: Met Police must release communications between US & UK regarding WikiLeaks and Assange


RT
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:57 UTC
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A banner outside Ecuadorian Embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up for over eight years.
In a win for WikiLeaks, a journalist has won a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) appeal with the Met Police to defend press freedom and reveal the existence of communications, between UK & US authorities, about WikiLeaks editors.

Stefania Maurizi, a La Repubblica journalist and longtime media partner on WikiLeaks releases, has been pursuing various multi-jurisdictional FOIA requests about WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange over the past few years, and secured a victory against the Met at a first-tier Tribunal appeal.

"The victory in Stefania's case is important first step," WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Hrafnsson told RT, adding that the tribunal decision sets "an important example for journalists in FOIA cases."

Comment: Kudos to Ms. Maurizi for not giving up, and to La Repubblica for standing behind her.

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Jordan B. Peterson's free speech fight: Author plans to ditch Patreon as censorship battle rages

Douglas Ernst
Washington Times
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:39 UTC
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"12 Rules for Life" author Jordan B. Peterson is fed up with the questionable practices of tech giants when it comes to honoring the idea of free speech.

The recent decision by crowdfunding platform Patreon to remove popular YouTuber Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad, may have been a free-speech tipping point for the clinical psychologist. Mr. Peterson and fellow pundit Dave Rubin of YouTube "The Rubin Report" announced plans to build a "better alternative" for intellectuals and content creators.

"We've been engaged in lengthy series of email exchanges with all of the people in our network, and no one is happy at all with what's been happening," Mr. Peterson said a joint video released Sunday. "We've been determining what our options are. We looked at Subscribe Star, but it looks like PayPal decided to cut funding out from them."

At issue is Patreon's decision to kill the account of Mr. Benjamin in early December after its staff was made aware of a guest appearance on a small YouTube channel 10 months ago.
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Famous atheist Sam Harris deletes Patreon account in protest of its biased political bans

Hank Berrien
The Dailywire
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
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On Sunday evening, famed atheist Sam Harris fired off a tweet announcing he would delete his Patreon account on Monday to protest Patreon banning several content creators from using their platform. Harris wrote:


Patreon has banned several personalities from the platform, including British YouTuber Carl Benjamin, better known as Sargon of Akkad, commentator James Allsup, and Milo Yiannopoulos. In July 2017, Patreon banned former Rebel Media personality Lauren Southern.

Comment: Deluded souls in the Silicon Valley blue bubble would be wise to remember that competition still exists. See also:

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Ron Paul: Financial market correction could make economy 'worse than 1929'

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
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Former presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul says that the current market conditions are ripe for a correction of 50% and Wall Street is vulnerable to depression-like conditions in the next year. "It could be worse than 1929," Dr. Paul said recently in an interview.

Paul said Thursday on CNBC's "Futures Now that "Once this volatility shows that we're not going to resume the bull market, then people are going to rush for the exits." Paul added that "it could be worse than 1929." He was referencing the fateful day in October of 1929 when the stock market crashed, and the United States was flung into the Great Depression that lasted ten years. During that year, a worldwide depression was ignited because of the U.S.'s market crash. The stock market began hemorrhaging and after falling almost 90 percent, sent the U.S. economy crashing a burning.

And of course, no one believes it could happen again. But Dr. Paul is continuously warning against the media's constant optimism. As well-known Libertarian, Paul has been warning Wall Street that a massive market plunge is inevitable for years. He's currently projecting a 50 percent decline from current levels as his base case, citing the ongoing U.S.-China trade war as a growing risk factor. "I'm not optimistic that all of the sudden, you're going to eliminate the tariff problem. I think that's here to stay," he said. "Tariffs are taxes." And these tariffs are a direct tax on the American economy and consumer.
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China and Japan continue slashing holdings of US debt

Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss
Reuters
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:01 UTC
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China and Japan, two of the largest non-U.S. holders of Treasuries, slashed their holdings of U.S. government debt in October, Treasury Department data showed on Monday, in line with the decline in global reserves.

China had $1.138 trillion in U.S. Treasuries in October, down from $1.151 trillion the previous month. The world's second-largest economy has cut its Treasury positions for five straight months, but remains the largest holder of U.S. Treasuries outside the United States.

"China's foreign exchange reserves fell during the month of October, perhaps as it was trying to defend its currency. They sell Treasuries to do that," said Gennadiy Goldberg, interest rates strategist at TD Securities in New York.
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Netanyahu's son Yair gets banned by Facebook for a day over anti-Muslim messages


Sputnik
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 04:03 UTC
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The son of Israeli Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Defense Minister, Immigration Minister and Health Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair, was briefly banned from Facebook after he shared a series of incendiary posts on the platform last week.

In one of the posts, he claimed that peace would not exist in Israel until all Muslims are gone.

Yair Netanyahu has, Al Jazeera noted, "faced criticism of being a grown man living in the prime minister's residence despite having no official role," causing controversy in his father's administration on multiple occasions.

Chief among those controversies, perhaps, was "strippergate," which centered around an audio recording of Yair's ride in a government vehicle as he was "drunkenly ping-ponging between strip clubs," according to Israel's oldest daily newspaper, Haaretz. One of Yair's friends joked that a government security guard would have to be killed if he quit his job because he overheard their conversation.
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Egyptian referendum for Libyan exiles shows 92% support for Dr. Saif Al Islam Ghadafi's presidential bid

Joanne Moriarty
libyanwarthetruth.com
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:17 UTC
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Last week in Egypt, a referendum was held among Libyans who are future voters living in exile in Egypt because of the destruction and occupation (by force) of their country by NATO, France, US, UK and their terrorist mercenaries.

The referendum results show the Libyan support for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's candidacy for the Libyan presidency in the upcoming elections in Libya in the spring of 2019. Only Libyans were allowed to vote in this referendum and even though held in Egypt, the results are a microcosm of the Libyan country. The results of this referendum are the reason the Khazarian Mafia New World Order is panicking and making every attempts to discredit, assassinate, arrest or otherwise stop Dr Saif from running for President.

There was one question in the referendum: "Do you support Seif al-Islam Ghadafi as the head of state capable of completing the reconstruction of Libya?"

The results of the referendum are as follows: (you will find an official certified document of results attached to the bottom of this article)

Of the 65,125 Libyans who voted:
91.64% voted YES
8.36% voted NO
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'Our whole life has been destroyed': Palestinian family in East Jerusalem forced to demolish their own home

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 11:29 UTC
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Murad Hashimi, 38, stands amongst the rubble of his home that he lived in for 20 years
The days since 38-year-old Murad Hashimi lost his home in occupied East Jerusalem have been some of the most difficult of his life.

Not only did he lose the home he was born and raised in, but he was forced to demolish it with his own two hands.

"When I was destroying my house, it was like I was in a daze," Hashimi told Mondoweiss. "I couldn't think clearly. Even now, I can't think about anything except the house."
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Cannibal trio sentenced for killing women, stuffing flesh into pastries, sold some to neighbors

Katherine Lam
New York Post
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:59 UTC
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From left, Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife, Isabel Cristina Pires, and his mistress Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva during their trial in September 2014.
A Brazilian man - dubbed the "Sweeney Todd" cannibal - his wife and his mistress were each sentenced to several decades in prison after they were convicted of murdering women and stuffing their flesh into pastries that they then ate and handed out to neighbors, reports said.

Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife, Isabel Pires, and his mistress, Bruna Cristina Oliveira, were sentenced over the weekend after they were arrested in 2012 for killing at least three women, Brazilian outlet G1 reported. The trio - nicknamed the "cannibals of Garanhaus" for the neighborhood where the murders took place - was on trial for killing Alexandra Falcon Silva, 20, and Gisele Helena da Silva, 31.

Silveira was sentenced to 71 years in prison, while his wife received 68 years and his mistress 71 years and 10 months.

The trio lured women to their home by offering them a job as a nanny or giving them religious advice before slaughtering them and eating their flesh. Silveira's wife used some of the flesh to make stuffed meat pastries called salgados. They sold some of the pastries to neighbors.

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