Society's Child
At the very beginning of the of the Skripal incident, the security services blocked by D(SMA) notice any media mention of Pablo Miller and told the media not to look at Orbis and the Steele dossier on Trump, acting immediately to get out their message via trusties in the BBC and Guardian. Gordon Corera, "BBC Security Correspondent", did not name the source who told him to say this, but helpfully illustrated his tweet with a nice picture of MI6 Headquarters.
MI6's most important media conduit (after Frank Gardner) is Luke Harding of the Guardian.
A number of people replied to Harding's tweet to point out that this was demonstrably untrue, and Pablo Miller had listed his employment by Orbis Business Intelligence on his Linkedin profile. That profile had just been deleted, but a google search for "Pablo Miller" plus "Orbis Business Intelligence", without Linkedin as a search term, brought up Miller's Linkedin profile as the first result (although there are twelve other Pablo Millers on Linkedin and the search brought up none of them). Plus a 2017 forum discussed Pablo Miller's Orbis connection and it both cited and linked to his Linkedin entry.
Many have suspected that the rife censorship, removal of pages, and banning of members has long been the means by which Facebook is able to push a deliberate agenda. Even the interface of the entire platform, according to its creators, is designed to create a feedback loop in which "bad actors can manipulate large swaths of people to do anything you want."
Indeed, Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice president of user growth at Facebook recently stated at a public discussion at the Stanford Graduate School of Business,"Everybody else has to soul-search a little bit more about what you're willing to do. Because your behaviors, you don't realize it, but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you're willing to give up, how much of your intellectual independence."
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Adi Shosberger, protesting snipers
Adi Shosberger, protesting snipers
Thus I will tell the story of Adi Shosberger, the Israeli activist who called Israeli soldiers "terrorists" who are participating in a "massacre of innocent civilians", telling them they were brainwashed into joining a "terror army", as featured in a video which went viral in Israel just over two weeks ago. The incitement against her following the video release resulted in death threats, harassment and intimidation of her children, slashing of tires, garbage on the lawn etc. Adi required protection from fellow activists, as the police have taken her situation very lightly.
Photos emerging from the scene showed the gigantic blaze engulfing the entire 26-floor structure
One person has been confirmed dead so far - with further fatalities expected to be announced over the coming hours.
The catastrophic collapse was caught on camera in the city of Sao Paulo as horrified onlookers filmed the unfolding carnage.
In the clip, posted on Twitter, the 26-storey building can be seen smoldering from the blaze with flames licking up the side of the structure from several windows.
The block then suddenly bursts into a bright ball of fire - before a whole side of the building comes crashing down to earth.
Comment: Let's watch that again without the annoying video ads:
NUTS!!!
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Student arrives at George Washington University divestment vote with a member of the anti-BDS group 'Canary Mission' (right) continuing efforts to intimidate students.
Student arrives at George Washington University divestment vote with a member of the anti-BDS group 'Canary Mission' (right) continuing efforts to intimidate students.
Around 1 a.m early Tuesday morning, by a vote of 18 to 6 with 6 abstentions, resolution SR-S18-21: The Protection of Palestinian Human Rights Act passed, making George Washington the second university in just a week to pass a divestment resolution. Barnard College's student body voted in favor of a similar resolution by a record breaking margin in a campus-wide referendum on April 18.
The GW resolution, sponsored by student Senator Josh Gomez, along with Eden Vitoff, Jessica Martinez and Shaheera Jalil Albasit, calls on the university to divest from the following companies: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems Ltd., Caterpillar Inc., CEMEX, General Electric, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Comment: The BDS movement is a clear threat to the genocidal campaign being waged by Israel against the Palestinians, and Israel has a lot to lose were more Americans to become wise to their actions at home and their corrupting influence in the US:
- Netanyahu's Anti-Iran PowerPoint Moment as Trump Wavers and Europe Turns its Back
- Top Israeli "sabotage" strategist admits BDS is winning
- The dark inevitability of Zionism and the success of the boycott Israel movement BDS
- The biggest meddler in American democracy is not Russia, it is Israel via foreign agent AIPAC
- Assange: Forget Russia, America's real threat comes from Israel and the Israel Lobby
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Comment: What US police consider assault these days would barely get you detention in kindergarten.
According to reports, 42-year-old Roger W Davis, a nurse at the hospital, was arguing loudly with the hospital's staff in the lobby on Thursday. Davis' mother was reportedly being treated in the hospital's emergency room at the time, though it is unclear what Davis and the staffers were arguing about and whether it involved Davis' mother.
Davis allegedly refused to leave the hospital after officers arrived at the scene and asked him to exit the building. The video footage shows Davis' father, who was also in the hospital, urging Davis to comply with the police officers' orders.
Comment: Understandably the man was distressed but he is not violent; the response of the US police demonstrates just how cowardly and psychopathic they really are, and as evidenced by the witnesses, US citizens are all too aware of it:
- How do cops without guns handle violence?
- U.S. police routinely travel to Israel to learn methods of brutality and repression
- Is your local police department using pictures of pregnant women and children for target
- US: A short history of police brutality, cops let off the hook by the psychopathic justice system
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Security forces search residents of the Manguinhos favela complex.
Security forces search residents of the Manguinhos favela complex.
Five people were killed, along with a military police officer, in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area Saturday. The massacre occurred in Vila Operaria neighborhood, while the police officer was killed in Jacarepagua neighborhood.
The investigation, conducted by the Baixada Fluminense Homicide Precinct, indicates that hooded gunmen fired in the direction of the five victims in Vila Operaria, killing three men and two women. The victims were identified as Marlon de Souza (19); Rosangela de Souza Ribeiro (49); Douglas Carneiro (35); Carla Gomes Maria (37); and Felix Fonseca da Silva (46).
Comment: Unsurprisingly, the chaos overtaking Brazil is the signature of US interference: Brazil, the Assassination of Justice; a Coup in a Coup
The judge who persecuted Dilma and Lula, Sergio Moro is one of the many judges or judicial employees co-opted by Washington, which in fact now maintains a kind of School of the Americas for police forces in El Salvador. Moro's conviction of Lula is a legal monstrosity, since - as in the Dilma case - there is no evidence in the case for which he was convicted, which makes him a political hostage, not only from Brazil, but from Washington which favored the former informant for the Southern Command, the current president; Michel Temer.See also:
- After the fall of da Silva, expect chaos for Brazil, exactly what the US wants
- Coup in Brazil: Six Crucial Facts in the Persecution of Lula
- Permanent state of coup: Brazilian court orders favored presidential candidate Lula to prison
- Human rights lawyer: No evidence Lula is corrupt - Brazilian prosecutor wants him to prove innocence AFTER beginning 12-year prison sentence!
- Brazil's Lula da Silva begins prison sentence after surrendering to military police, vows to prove his innocence
- Pro-Lula protesters close roads and highways in 16 Brazilian states
Couple become Britain’s oldest new parents — only to have baby taken into care, stock image
The 63-year-old mum and her partner, 65, are "devastated" after bosses stepped in and took the child from them.
The couple's age is thought to be a factor in fears over the one-year-old's well-being. A source said: "They are devastated.
Social services have been dealing with them since last year and told them to make improvements in how the child was being looked after.
Comment: What is wrong with the West? Parenting is no longer seen as an honourable duty with consideration for the child and society but merely an act which fulfils the ambitions of narcissistic adults.
Then there's the question of social services who do an extremely difficult job, but who too often have been shown to either fail to act in cases of extreme abuse, or remove children without good reason.
All these trends we see throughout the West are signs of a society in terminal decline:
- Rochdale council protects pedophiles, rejects claim of child sex abuse as 'out of time'
- UK pedophile ring: Hundreds of underage girls raped, sold for sex & murdered by child-grooming abusers
- Has Child Protective Services gone too far?
- Child Protective Services children found in human trafficking sex trade
- How Thatcher's Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring
The Israeli army had sentenced Helman to six separate prison sentences for his refusal to be conscripted into the military and, in his words, 'take part in the occupation and Israel's policies of oppression vis-a-vis the Palestinians.'
File photo of Matan Helman (Photo by Edo Ramon/Mesarvot)"But I believe that I am following my truth and that is what will keep me strong in prison," he added, "and I have a lot of support from my friends and those around me."
Military service in Israel is compulsory for non-Orthodox Jews and for young men in the Druze community. A small but growing movement of youngsters has taken a public stand in refusing to be conscripted, almost always resulting in prison sentences.
Helman has served his six prison sentences in "Military Prison 6," where most male conscientious objectors are held alongside soldiers who have been imprisoned for various other reasons.
File photo of Matan Helman (Photo by Edo Ramon/Mesarvot)
Military service in Israel is compulsory for non-Orthodox Jews and for young men in the Druze community. A small but growing movement of youngsters has taken a public stand in refusing to be conscripted, almost always resulting in prison sentences.
Helman has served his six prison sentences in "Military Prison 6," where most male conscientious objectors are held alongside soldiers who have been imprisoned for various other reasons.
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The yellow metal also makes a habit of performing poorly when the stock market is doing well. But gold is the ultimate store of value, according to precious metals expert Ronan Manly of Singapore's BullionStar.
"What this means is that gold retains its purchasing power over long periods. Gold's purchasing power is not eroded by inflation as it is an inflation hedge," the analyst told RT. "In contrast, fiat currencies such as the US dollar are not stores of value. Fiat currency purchasing power is consistently eroded by inflation, and over time fiat currencies, such as the US dollar, lose nearly all of their purchasing power relative to gold."
Comment: See:
- Macroeconomic analyst: Global gold supplies tighten but the money for hyperinflation has been printed
- Economist: Fed triggered the big stock sell-off - and the almighty dollar's next, 'this kind of thing eventually gives you hyperinflation'
- Countdown: How long do we have before seeing hyperinflation? One expert's answer may frighten you
Widely accepted as a safe haven, gold is commonly seen as financial insurance in times of crisis, conflict or war, with investors rushing to the asset during these periods, according to Manly. He compares the precious commodity to a "safe harbor when there is geopolitical turmoil."
Comment: RT cites Brazilian outlet Folha as reporting that: Question: how does fire 'strike' two tall buildings simultaneously?