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Pro-Lula protesters close roads and highways in 16 Brazilian states

G1
g1.com
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 20:46 UTC

In defense of Lula at the ABC Metalworkers' Union

Protesters opposed to the arrest of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are protesting around the country.

Friday (April 6th) until 5:00pm is the deadline given by Judge Sérgio Moro for Lula to present himself to the headquarters of the Federal Police in Curitiba.

Pro-Lula acts occur in at least 16 states. A woman was shot in the leg at one of the blockades in the state of Paraíba.

Sérgio Moro issued the arrest warrant for Lula after the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF-4) sent the judge a letter authorizing the execution of the sentence of the former president in the case of the Guarujá triplex. The court sentenced Lula to 12 years and a month in prison, beginning the sentence in a closed regime.

On Thursday night (April 5th), the Workers' Party (PT) defense filed a new habeas corpus petition to avoid arrest. According to Lula's lawyers the Superior Federal Court (STJ) denied the request. STJ does not acknowledge issuing a ruling on Lula's new habeas corpus.

Since Thursday night Lula has been in the ABC Metalworkers' Union in São Paulo, where protesters are also gathered in support of the former president. According to military police, there are about 1 thousand people on the scene.

Comment: (UPDATE) The deadline has passed and Lula continues in the ABC Metalworkers' Union. The protests have spread to 22 states.

Hard questions for Israel as video shows unarmed teen shot in back by IDF sniper

Raf Sanchez
The Independent.ie
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:40 UTC

© Agence France-Presse
A Palestinian demonstrator throws back a teargas canister towards Israeli forces during clashes in Hebron.

In the battle of narratives between Israel and the Palestinians, the short life of Abdel Fattah Abd al-Nabi is the current frontline.

The 18-year-old was one of 15 Palestinians killed by Israeli troops on Friday as they confronted mass demonstrations at the Gaza border. Video footage appears to show Mr al-Nabi was unarmed and shot in the back by a sniper as he ran away from Israeli positions.

Images of his death have been shared around the world and both Israel and Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza, have raced to give their own spin on the shaky mobile phone video of his final moments. The fight to define one life, and one death, has become a proxy for the broader conflict.

The Israeli military has accused Mr al-Nabi of being "an active operative of the Hamas terror organisation's military wing", the Qassam Brigades. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said 10 of Friday's 16 dead had known links to terrorism and involved in violence when they were killed.

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One-third of millennials surveyed aren't sure the Earth is round

CBS News - Pittsburgh
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:28 UTC

A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren't convinced the Earth is actually round. The national poll reveals that 18 to 24-year-olds are the largest group in the country who refuse to accept the scientific facts of the world's shape.

YouGov, a British market research firm, polled 8,215 adults in the United States to find out if they ever believed in the "flat Earth" movement. Only 66 percent of young millennials answered that they "always believe the world is round." Science teachers across the U.S. will be shaking their heads after learning that nine percent of young adults answered that they have "always believed" the planet was flat.

Another nine percent said of young adults said they thought the planet was spherical but had doubts about it. In a disturbing display of indecision, 16 percent of millennials said they weren't sure what the shape of the planet was.

Comment: See also: The real conspiracy: Flat earth is a psyop

Mentally ill New York mother charged in brutal decapitation of her 7-year-old son

George Silvarole
syracuse.com
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 12:54 UTC

An upstate New York woman has been charged with murder following the death of a 7-year-old boy in Monroe County.

Hanane Mouhib, 36, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder, 13WHAM reported. She is being held at the Monroe County Jail without bail.

Mouhib allegedly killed her son, Abraham Cardenas, in their home in Sweden, New York, on Thursday night, the Democrat & Chronicle reported. Mouhib used a large kitchen knife to stab Abraham in both the upper left area of his back and in his neck, and severed his head from his body, according to investigators.

Israel is prepared to murder more unarmed protesters in Gaza

Robert Mackey
The Intercept
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:17 UTC

© Associated Press/Adel Hana
Palestinian masked protesters carrying tires walk toward the border fence during clashes with Israeli troops along Gaza's border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 5, 2018.

Israel's army expects up to 50,000 Palestinians to attend protests in Gaza on Friday, and is prepared to once again use deadly force against unarmed demonstrators, one week after Israeli snipers fired at least 650 bullets at Palestinian civilians, killing 15.

With President Donald Trump apparently ignoring last week's massacre in a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, senior Israeli officials brushed off pleas from human rights groups to rescind orders that permit snipers to open fire on protesters who approach Israel's perimeter fence.

"We have defined the rules of the game clearly and we do not intend to change them," Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said as he toured the frontier on Tuesday. "Anyone trying to approach the fence is putting their lives at risk."

At protest camps near the fence, families of Palestinian refugees originally from towns and cities inside what is now Israel read books and learned first aid as young men stockpiled rubber tires, which they burned to create smokescreens as cover from sniper fire.

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Zuckerberg tells media of 3-year plan to be able to control information on Facebook - just in time for 2020 election

Allum Bokhari
Breitbart
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:36 UTC

In his call with members of the press yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook was "probably a year into a massive three-year push" to fix alleged issues surrounding "fake news," "misinformation," and election interference on the platform.

Zuckerberg's timeline implies that Facebook's goal is to have fundamentally altered their platform by the time of the 2020 presidential elections, and that work on the project started at approximately the same time as the presidential victory of Donald Trump.

That's also when the panic over "fake news" and "misinformation" started, led by the left-wing and corporate media and embraced by Democratic lawmakers. The resultant changes to Facebook have seen conservative media and the official Facebook account of Donald Trump suffer severe hits to their engagement and traffic.

"In 2016 we were behind where we wanted to be," said Zuckerberg. "We had a more traditional view of the security threat. We expected Russia and other countries to try and do phishing and traditional kinds of security exploits, but not necessarily the kind of misinformation campaign that they did. We were behind - that was a really big miss. And now we want to make sure that we're not behind again."

Comment: Whether Zuckerberg is ignorantly reacting or in cahoots with the Deep State, Facebook will soon turn into a thought-policed corner of the web where no idea that is in opposition to the US Empire will be allowed to exist.

South Korea's former president, Park Geun-hye, given 24 years in jail for corruption

RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 07:24 UTC

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been found guilty of bribery, abuse of power, and coercion. She was sentenced to 24 years in prison, though prosecutors initially requested 30 years.

Park was accused of colluding with her friend Choi Soon-sil, who had been already sentenced to 20 years, in taking tens of millions of dollars from conglomerates. The high-profile graft scandal led to the president's impeachment in December 2016, and triggered massive protests across South Korea both supporting and condemning Park.

Park, 66, is the daughter of former South Korean military leader Park Chung-hee. She became the third South Korean president convicted of crimes. The others were former military generals involved in a 1979 coup and a 1980 civilian massacre.

Comment: This is what happens in normal human society. In the West, Killary still walks.

John Pilger: The isolation of Julian Assange is the silencing of us all

John Pilger
johnpilger.com
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC

In this letter, twenty-seven writers, journalists, film-makers, artists, academics, former intelligence officers and democrats call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech.

If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now.

Citing his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US, Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone.

As if ensuring his total isolation, the Ecuadorian government is also refusing to allow him to receive visitors. Despite two UN rulings describing his detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release, Assange has been effectively imprisoned since he was first placed in isolation in Wandsworth prison in London in December 2010. He has never been charged with a crime. The Swedish case against him collapsed and was withdrawn, while the United States has stepped up efforts to prosecute him. His only "crime" is that of a true journalist -- telling the world the truths that people have a right to know.

Comment: A deafening silence around the world...

Facebook apologizes after blocking image of Jesus on Good Friday

RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:39 UTC

Is an image of a crucified Jesus 'shocking'? Facebook seemed to think so, and blocked an advertisement by a Franciscan university in the US that featured the image. The social media giant has since apologized for the "error."

The Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio published 10 Facebook advertisements on Good Friday, ahead of Easter. The ads were promoting the Catholic school's master's degree programs in theology, catechetics and evangelization.

However, Facebook rejected the one that depicted the San Damiano Cross, hurting the school's efforts to reach religiously-minded students on the Christian holy day.

The San Damiano cross is particularly important to the Franciscan order. The legend goes that its founder, Saint Francis of Assisi, was praying before that particular crucifix when he heard the voice of God. The Franciscan University of Steubenville displays it prominently across its campus. The original hangs in the Basilica of St. Clare in Assisi, Italy.

Family furious after Alaska Airlines kicks son with Down Syndrome off plane for throwing up

RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:32 UTC

A family was booted off an Alaska Airlines flight and stranded at the airport after their son with Down syndrome was sick before boarding. The company says he posed a health risk.

The family was traveling to Seattle from St. Louis on Monday after an Easter trip, when Alaska Airline attendants demanded they disembark the plane.

"After boarding the flight, Patrick threw up a little and the airline workers kicked my family off the flight," the boy's sister, Meaghan Hess, a third-year law student, told NBC. She was not traveling with her family when the incident took place.

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Society's Child

Pro-Lula protesters close roads and highways in 16 Brazilian states

Hard questions for Israel as video shows unarmed teen shot in back by IDF sniper

One-third of millennials surveyed aren't sure the Earth is round

Mentally ill New York mother charged in brutal decapitation of her 7-year-old son

Israel is prepared to murder more unarmed protesters in Gaza

Zuckerberg tells media of 3-year plan to be able to control information on Facebook - just in time for 2020 election

South Korea's former president, Park Geun-hye, given 24 years in jail for corruption

John Pilger: The isolation of Julian Assange is the silencing of us all

Facebook apologizes after blocking image of Jesus on Good Friday

Family furious after Alaska Airlines kicks son with Down Syndrome off plane for throwing up

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