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Three states offered Gaddafi refuge says slain Libyan leader's official interpreter and confirms Sarkozy donation


Sputnik
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:22 UTC
Muammar Gaddafi
© Sputnik
In the wake of the scandal around Nicolas Sarkozy's alleged illegal campaign funding by the former Libyan leader, Meftah Abdallah Missuri, Muammar Gaddafi's official interpreter, told Sputnik that the former French President was not the only one to have made use of the colonel's "generosity."

"Mubarak [Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president from 1981 to 2011], Ben Ali [Zine El Abidin Ben Ali, Tunisia's president from 1987 to 2011] asked for Gaddafi's help. He helped 'third world' countries: from Asia to South America. For instance, the French Foreign Ministry's budget constitutes 1 billion 700 million euros, 780 million of which is allocated to develop relations and help other nations. As for Libya, there was no definite sum for such aims ever," Missuri said.

The interpreter elaborated that Libya had helped everyone under various circumstances - natural calamities, famine, grasshopper plagues - sending medicine and planes. In the meantime, he added that if any head of state asked for help, Tripoli donated from half a million to five million dinars.
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Bad Guys

British ISIS torturers 'regret' beheadings but say revoking citizenship 'unfair'


RT
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:01 UTC
Photos provided by SDF on February 9, 2018, showing captured ISIS members Alexanda Kotey and Shafee Elsheikh
© SDF handout / Reuters
Photos provided by SDF on February 9, 2018, showing captured ISIS members Alexanda Kotey and Shafee Elsheikh.
Two British ISIS members have described their brutal execution of hostages as "regrettable." The men also said that the British government's decision to revoke their citizenship denied them the chance of a fair trial.

El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Amon Kotey were allegedly part of a four-member Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS/ISIL) cell known as "The Beatles." The cell became known for its brutal execution videos of hostages, including American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley in 2014.

The cell's leader, Mohammed Emwazi, became known as "Jihadi John," and appeared in many of the group's videos, threatening the west from behind a mask. Emwazi was "evaporated" in a coalition drone strike in Raqqa, Syria in November 2015. Another member of the group, Aine Lesley Davis, was arrested in Turkey last year and sentenced to seven years in prison.
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Pistol

Two Texans arrested under the suspicion of planning massacre at Boston Anti-Gun March

Jennifer Smith
Daily Mail
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:24 UTC
Were they planning a March For Our Lives massacre? Texan couple's enormous stash of weapons including AR-15s and grenades is found in Boston hotel room along with parking tickets which suggest they had been surveilling protest site for days.
  • Francho Bradley, 59, and Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested on Saturday
  • At 3.40pm, he called police in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, from his car
  • He said someone had broken into his hotel room at the Marriott Inn Residence
  • Bradley had a surveillance feed linked up to a mounted laptop in his car, he said
  • Police went to the hotel room and found five rifles, a shotgun, grenades, a handgun, a revolver and hundreds of rounds of ammunition
  • They also discovered walkie-talkies, six laptops, four phones and thumb drives
  • Bradley met them at the hotel with Adrianne, who has a history of mental illness
  • A bomb squad was called to search the room as they were questioned outside
  • He said he was working for a secret government agency on a 'virus'
  • In the week beforehand, he received 3 parking tickets a mile from the site of Saturday's March For Our Lives protest in Boston
Francho Bradley - Adrianne Jennings
© Tewksburry Police Department
Francho Bradley, 59, and his common law wife Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested in Boston on Saturday after police found their enormous haul of weapons which included rifles with sniper scopes, grenades, handguns and revolvers in a hotel room on the day of the March For Our Lives Protest.
A Texan couple have been arrested in Boston after police found a haul of weapons inside their hotel room including AR-15 and AK-47 rifles along with parking tickets which suggest they were surveilling the site of Saturday's March for Our Lives protest.

Francho Bradley, 59, and Adrianne Jennings, 40, were arrested at the Marriott Residence Inn in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, on Saturday after he called police to report someone breaking into his room.

He told police he was in his Jeep where he had surveillance video feed from his hotel room linked up to a laptop in his car but that it had suddenly cut out.

He said he worried someone had broken into the room and gotten their hands on his one weapon which he said he had hidden in a drawer.

Comment: This story doesn't make sense, but it has the same ingredients of the "mass shooting" stories - Mental illness, Lot's of Guns, claims of working for "Classified" Job, Actions that doesn't follow the "common sense" for the purported Crime etc.

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People

Google employees organize to create new policies to control "Internal Harassment Debate"

Paresh Dave
Reuters
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:50 UTC
Silhouettes of laptop and mobile device users
© REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Silhouettes of laptop and mobile device users are seen next to a screen projection of Google logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018.
About 100 Google U.S. employees concerned about cyber bullying inside the company have organized into a group proposing new policies for conduct at the unit of Alphabet Inc, five people involved in the effort said in recent interviews.

Three current employees and two others helping to organize the group said it formed last fall. They said that among its proposals, which have not previously been reported in detail, are that Google should tighten rules of conduct for internal forums and hire staff to enforce them.
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X

Pro-Israel censorship: Facebook disables Gaza-based news agency Safa's account with 1.3 million followers


tele SUR
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
facebook
According to a Palestinian activist, this year alone 500 pages of Palestinian journalists, activists and bloggers have been deleted.

Facebook deleted account of Gaza-based Palestinian news agency Safa as part of a pro-Israeli policy to block and delete users accounts considered "inciteful." The agency is allegedly affiliated to the Palestinian political party Hamas; a claim Safa denies.

Safa's account was disabled along with the accounts of 10 of its editors Saturday, after 5 p.m local time. The agency's social media manager, who is keeping his identity secret, told the Jerusalem Post "We were totally surprised." The news agency didn't receive a warning or an explanation.

"We are now working to restore the account because 60 percent of the website's traffic comes through Facebook," the social media manager said. A reminder of Facebook's growing power in limiting or facilitating access to information.

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Question

The very strange Skripal poisoning case has just become even stranger

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:00 UTC
Sergei and Yulia Skripal

Victims: Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33
British say deadly Novichok chemical 8 times more powerful than any other smeared on front door; Yulia Skripal conscious and talking; freeze Russians out of court proceedings

Those trying to make sense of the Skripal poisoning will have their work cut out following the news which have been coming out about it over the past week.

Firstly, the British police have announced that they now believe that Sergey and Yulia Skripal came into contact with the deadly chemical which poisoned them because it was smeared onto their front door.

This announcement has come after weeks of speculation during which a bewildering range of competing theories explaining how the poisoning supposedly took place have appeared in the British media.
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USA

State Dept to introduce 'extreme vetting' of tourists/visas to US - social media history, contacts, possible ties to terrorism

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:53 UTC
Trump
© Yahoo
The State Department will publish new rules this week to require most visitors and immigrants to the U.S. to divulge their recent social media histories, carrying out one of the key security enhancements from President Trump's extreme vetting executive order.

Travelers would also be asked to list phone numbers, email addresses and international travel during the previous five years, and to detail any immigration problems they have had, whether with the U.S. or elsewhere. They also will be asked about potential family connections to terrorism.

In a striking move, would-be immigrants from countries where female genital mutilation is prevalent - mostly in Africa - would be directed to a website ensuring that they are aware the practice is largely illegal in the U.S.

The proposals are laid out in two documents slated to be published Friday, kicking off a comment period before the government finalizes the policies later this year.

"This upgrade to visa vetting is long-overdue, and it's appropriate to apply it to everyone seeking entry, because terrorism is a worldwide problem. The aim is to try to weed out people with radical or dangerous views," said Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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Star of David

"Not a democracy": Israelis respond to proposed anti-BDS law amendments

Boycott from Within
Mondoweiss
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:21 UTC
israel bds sign
© BDSMovement.net
In 2011, Israel passed the 'Boycott Law'. The law makes Israeli citizens legally liable if they boycott, or encourage a boycott of an Israeli product, company, or institution, if that boycott "harms the state". Since then, Israel has been piling up amendments to the original law, and additional legislation that aims to silence opposition to its systematic abuses of the human rights of the indigenous Palestinian people.

As the Boycott Law stands, Israeli citizens are under threat of being sued a minimum of 8,500 USD in damages, if they make a public call not to purchase a product or service from an Israeli company, which is complicit in Israel's violations of international law and Palestinian human rights, or explicitly do so themselves. In such cases, the State of Israel identifies itself with the brand name, and enables the companies to file vindictive lawsuits.

As an illustration of this anti-democratic legislation, if an Israeli citizen decides to cancel a contract with a mobile phone provider for bad service - they are not legally liable. But if they wish to cancel a contract with a mobile phone provider for providing services to the Israeli army, which systematically subjects a population of millions of indigenous Palestinians to systematic, daily human rights violations and war crimes - they may be legally liable.


Comment: In other words, it is thought-crime. It has nothing to do with the act itself, but for the motivation behind the act.


This anti-democratic Israeli law makes it possible to sue Israeli citizens and human rights activists like us for the aforementioned hefty sum, and to sue us for damages on top of that.
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Fire

Fire at mental health facility in Moscow suburb, close to 300 patients and staff evacuated


RT
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:56 UTC
Fire in health facility
© Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
Firefighters in Moscow, Russia
Patients and personnel are being evacuated from a mental health facility in the city of Noginsk outside Moscow.

The blaze occurred in one of the buildings belonging to the 25th psychiatric hospital, the Emergencies Ministry said. The fire started on the third floor of the building and covered 40 square meters.
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Evil Rays

It's not all about guns: Secret Service analysis finds 64% of mass shooters suffer from mental illness

Kevin Johnson
USA TODAY
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:13 UTC
parkland shooting
A striking number of suspects linked to violent attacks in schools and other public places last year were stalked by symptoms of mental illness, and nearly half were motivated by real or perceived personal grievances, a new Secret Service report has found.

An examination of 28 attacks, which claimed nearly 150 lives and wounded hundreds from Orlando to Las Vegas also found that more than three-quarters of the assailants engaged in suspicious communications or conduct that raised concerns from others before the assaults, according to the report.

The analysis, prepared by the Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center, had been in the works months before the massacre Feb. 14 at a high school in Parkland, Fla., but its findings are likely to further fuel concerns about the untreated mentally ill and their access to high-powered firearms.
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