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Former UK ambassador Craig Murray facing prison over reporting of defence case in Alex Salmond trial

RT
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:21 UTC

Former Scottish diplomat Craig Murray faces possible imprisonment after he lost a contempt of court case over his coverage of the Alex Salmond trial in 2020. His legal team is preparing an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan and RT contributor Murray faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison and an unlimited fine if his contempt of court ruling is upheld.

Murray sat in the public gallery when he attended two days of a trial against the former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, who was cleared of 13 sexual assault charges made by nine women following a 2020 trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Virtual contempt of court proceedings were held at the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, before Lord Justice Clerk Lady Dorrian on Wednesday, during which the court argued that information published on Murray's blog could have led to the identification of the women involved in the Salmond trial, in breach of a court order and potentially influencing the jury's decision.

Comment: Could have led to... As in, he published already public information and guessed who the women were, but didn't actually name them. And for that he may be thrown int he slammer for a year!

Comment: Murray is also reporting that Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish First Minister, was behind the dismissed 'MeToo' rape charges against her former boss, Alex Salmond. Something is fishy in the Westminster province of Scotland, to say the least.

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Silencing dissent: Ex-UK diplomat and activist Craig Murray indicted for blog posts in Kafkaesque case

15K+ migrant children now held in US custody amid border surge

Simon Kent
Breitbart
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC

The number of migrant children now held in U.S. custody surged past 15,000 on Saturday, with some 5,000 unaccompanied minors alone being held in a tent holding facility run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other stations along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

According to a CBS News report, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed HHS is housing nearly 10,500 unaccompanied minors in emergency housing facilities and shelters licensed by states.

The detention of these minors shatters the 2,600 children held at the peak of the 2019 migrant surge.

The news outlet reported unaccompanied migrant children are spending 136 hours on average in CBP custody, passing the legal time limit of 72 hours in a trend that first started last month, as Breitbart News reported.

CBS further reported border officials have encountered over 500 unaccompanied minors per day over the past 21 days. The number of encounters are expected to top the 9,400 minors that entered custody in February.

Comment: A plan is only as good as it works. Trump's hard-fought for policies and border control were signature in avoiding these specific results. Biden's plan? An epic failure boding negative consequences for years to come.

Terrible idea: Royal family consider diversity tsar under modernisation plans

Nazia Parveen
The Guardian
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:57 UTC

The royal family are considering appointing a diversity tsar under new plans to modernise the monarchy.

The move comes after Buckingham Palace conducted a review of policies, procedures and programmes currently in place and found that not enough progress had been made, with an acknowledgement that "more needs to be done".

Comment: Whose kind of "progress"?

It comes after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex claimed in an explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey that a member of the family had made a racist comment about their son, Archie.

Comment: Hiring a diversity tsar is an admission of guilt for "systemic racism." The Palace will get more than they asked for. The job of a diversity tsar is to see everything as racist/sexist/transphobic/ableist/etc. Once you fall into that trap, it's even harder to escape.

In the most shocking disclosure, Harry and Meghan described how someone within the household had asked about how dark the skin tone of their baby son would be - with Winfrey clarifying later that neither the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh were behind the remark. The allegation of racism within Buckingham Palace was one of several incendiary claims in the tell-all interview.

While the work being undertaken around diversity predates the couple's interview, their comments will be taken on board as part of the process, it is understood.

Fulton County GOP rebukes Brad Raffensperger after GA Sec. of State busted for deceptive anti-Trump smear

Kyle Becker
beckernews.com
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 19:15 UTC

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, whose office leaked information that led to deceptively edited stories against Donald Trump, is being rebuked by the Fulton County GOP, according to a new report.

Journalist Ryan James Gidursky obtained the 'scoop' on Saturday afternoon that the Fulton County GOP are denying Raffensperger the ability to be a delegate to the county convention.

"SCOOP: The Fulton County GOP in Georgia denied the Secretary of State Brad Ratffensperger of being a delegate to his county convention from his own precinct," Gidursky reported. "Raffensperger [ed.] was not in attendance but sent a note asking to be elected."

Gidursky provided more evidence for the report.

Facebook says took down 1.3 billion fake accounts in Oct-Dec - team of 35k on the lookout for 'disinformation'

Reuters
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:59 UTC

Facebook Inc said on Monday it took down 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December and that it had over 35,000 people working on tackling misinformation on its platform.

Comment: That's a lot of fake accounts... Facebook reportedly has around 2.8 billion active users.

The company also removed more than 12 million pieces of content about COVID-19 and vaccines that global health experts flagged as misinformation, it said in a blog bit.ly/394arNi post.

False claims and conspiracies about the coronavirus vaccines have proliferated on social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter during the pandemic.

Comment: Why is this Facebook's job? Imagine a world where Facebook treated official statements from "respected authorities" with the same amount of skepticism! Lord knows, they get away with a ton of "false claims and conspiracies" about any number of topics.

Facebook's disclosure of data on misinformation comes ahead of an inspection by the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce into how technology platforms including Facebook are tackling misinformation.

Misplaced faith: Union's support of Biden did little to save members' jobs in Pennsylvania

Salena Zito
New York Post
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:22 UTC

© Salena Zito
Local United Steelworkers president Mitchell Becker (right) and vice president Chris McNally, who both endorsed Joe Biden, were shocked when they found out their paper mill plant will be shuttered.

When the Appvion Inc. paper mill plant shuts its doors for good in two weeks, putting 293 people out of work, it will mark the first significant manufacturing loss in this state since President Biden took office.

"We were all completely blindsided," said state Sen. Judy Ward, who claims she and other local officials had no hint that the plant, founded in 1866, was in danger of shuttering.

If you received a stimulus check in the mail, there's a good chance the men and women who work here produced the paper it was printed on. And yet there will be no stimulus for this factory, which produces carbonless security paper for official documents like car titles and house deeds.

Comment: Why so much trust in the face of Biden's actions? He has done nothing to create a 'level playing field'. Currently, his only major action has been to open the borders to a massive influx of cheap illegal labor.

Sensible people would be beginning to miss Trump:

Photos reveal 'terrible conditions' inside border facility, hundreds of migrant children packed into small makeshift rooms

Phil Shiver
The Blaze
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:57 UTC

New photos inside one of the Biden administration's surge facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border show the awful conditions under which migrant children are being kept amid the ongoing illegal immigration crisis.

The photos, shared with Axios by Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas), were taken inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary surge facility in Donna, Texas, and show hundreds of children packed into tiny, makeshift rooms as they await transfer to longer-term facilities operated by the Department of Health and Humans Services. Conditions inside such facilities have previously been described as "grim," cage-like, and "akin to jails."

Due to the rapid influx of migrants and the unpreparedness of the administration, many of the migrant children are being kept in surge facilities for longer than is legally permitted.

Comment: The crisis is getting too big for the media to wave away:

Project Veritas is on the case:

It must have taken some serious weight-throwing for Rep. Cuellar to be able to inspect the site:

Biden Admin will not allow reporters to tour child migrant detention facilities, cite COVID-19

Unfortunately, Biden consistently signaled this would be his actions regarding the border:

Settlers attack Palestinian farmer and his wife in Masafer Yatta

The Palestinian information center
Sat, 13 Mar 2021 07:59 UTC

Dozens of Jewish settlers attacked on Saturday morning a Palestinian citizen and his wife in the Masafer Yatta area, south of al-Khalil.

The Masafer Yatta Village Council stated that Saeed Elyan and his wife were injured after they were attacked by settlers in Sha'b Al-Butm area.

The council said that settlers of the Mitzpe Yair settlement threw stones at the farmer Elyan and his wife and beat them while they were on their land. The settlers also smashed the windows of Elyan's private car.

Elyan and his wife were taken to al-Khalil Government Hospital for treatment. Medical sources pointed out that the husband was wounded in his face and suffered bruises in his body while his wife was injured in her pelvis.

Elyan used to stand vigil at his land with his family to defend it against Israeli confiscation.

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Seven arrests after 'extremists' brought bloodshed to Bristol Kill the Bill march

Amie Gordon, Luke May, James Robinson and Milly Vincent
Daily Mail
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:35 UTC

Avon and Somerset police have condemned scenes which saw a police station come under siege.

A chief constable whose force controversially stood by as protesters ripped down the statue of Edward Colston today insisted he had 'no intelligence' that there would be any disorder before thousands tore through Bristol in a 'night of thuggery' during a 'Kill The Bill' riot.

At least 20 officers were injured as a 'mob of animals' swarmed through the city, setting police vehicles on fire, vandalising NHS workers' cars, hurling fireworks and smashing the windows of a police station.

But Andy Marsh, chief constable of Avon and Somerset Police, claimed the event had been 'hijacked by extremists' and said there was no 'prior intelligence' that any disorder was planned 'on this scale'.

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4 dead, 1 injured after an explosion at chemical factory in Maharashtra, India

Surabhi Shaurya
India.com
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:27 UTC

At least 4 people were killed and one other person was critically injured after an explosion at a chemical factory in an industrial area in Ratnagiri district on Saturday. If reports are to be believed, the incident took place at around 9:15 AM at the Gharda Chemicals Ltd. factory in the Lote-Parshuram MIDC complex. Several fire-tenders and firemen were rushed to the spot to rescue the labourers working there.

Around 40 other workers were rescued by the fire department staff and the police personnel following the blasts that triggered a blaze, a police official told news agency PTI.

While the injured worker was rushed to a nearby government hospital for treatment, the bodies of the four deceased were sent to a morgue for autopsy and other formalities.

The official also confirmed that the fire that erupted after the blasts has been brought under control and a cooling operation is underway.

Did the asbestos laden control tower collapse into it own footprint too; from the jet fuel?

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Society's Child

Former UK ambassador Craig Murray facing prison over reporting of defence case in Alex Salmond trial

15K+ migrant children now held in US custody amid border surge

Terrible idea: Royal family consider diversity tsar under modernisation plans

Fulton County GOP rebukes Brad Raffensperger after GA Sec. of State busted for deceptive anti-Trump smear

Facebook says took down 1.3 billion fake accounts in Oct-Dec - team of 35k on the lookout for 'disinformation'

Misplaced faith: Union's support of Biden did little to save members' jobs in Pennsylvania

Photos reveal 'terrible conditions' inside border facility, hundreds of migrant children packed into small makeshift rooms

Settlers attack Palestinian farmer and his wife in Masafer Yatta

Seven arrests after 'extremists' brought bloodshed to Bristol Kill the Bill march

4 dead, 1 injured after an explosion at chemical factory in Maharashtra, India

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