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A group of protesters gathered outside the Wokefield Estate near Reading in Berkshire to try to block the presidential convoy on Sunday afternoon - a plot that was narrowly foiled by dozens of police officers on foot, horse and motorbike.
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Kurdish protesters throw bottles and try to block Erdogan's convoy as his 3-day British visit begins
A group of protesters gathered outside the Wokefield Estate near Reading in Berkshire to try to block the presidential convoy on Sunday afternoon - a plot that was narrowly foiled by dozens of police officers on foot, horse and motorbike.
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Indonesian police take position and aim their weapons as they pursue suspects outside a cafe after a series of blasts hit the Indonesia capital Jakarta on January 14, 2016
Indonesian police take position and aim their weapons as they pursue suspects outside a cafe after a series of blasts hit the Indonesia capital Jakarta on January 14, 2016
According to Frans Barung Mangera, the explosion had occurred at 8:50 am local time (01:50 GMT) at the main police office.
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Alexanda Kotey • El Shafee Elsheikh
Alexanda Kotey • El Shafee Elsheikh
At the same time, senior Trump administration officials are adamant that Britain bears responsibility to prosecute the men, Alexanda Kotey, 34, and El Shafee Elsheikh, 29, whose British citizenships were revoked over their alleged affiliation with an ISIS cell suspected of murdering Westerners.
Further complicating matters, Attorney General Jeff Sessions would prefer that Kotey and Elsheikh be sent to the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, though he has recognized the success of federal terrorism prosecutions.
Comment: See also:
- British member of ISIS head-chopping crew claims in interview 'I didn't chop anybody's head off'
- Londoner identified as leading member of British ISIS cell has assets frozen by U.S. authorities
- Brit Defence Secretary says ISIS 'Beatles' shouldn't be brought back to face trial: 'Let them rot'
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Advice for judges and magistrates recommends harsh punishments for those found guilty of stirring up hatred against racial, religious or sexual minority groups.
Among those jailed should be people who post comments or share online hate speech because they have been reckless as to whether they stir up hatred, say the proposals from the Sentencing Council.
Those found guilty of hate trolling by commenting or sharing social media should typically receive a sentence of six months in jail.
Comment: Of course the issue here isn't really hate speech but the subjective interpretation of anything that goes against the party line.
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Losing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
Losing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
"There is still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women in positions of leadership," Clinton told Gillard, "and so the easiest way to kind of avoid having to look at someone on her merits is to dismiss her on her looks."Gillard compared the chants of "lock her up" that Clinton faced during the election to "the Salem Witch Trials."
"There is this fear, there is this anger, even rage about women seeking power, women exercising power and people fall back on these attacks like you're a witch or you should go to prison," Clinton agreed. "It's not a majority, thank goodness, it's not, but it's a very vocal minority at least in my country. And sometimes these tropes are very much part of the press coverage."Clinton continued to insist that her opponents who claimed not to be against women have since shown that they are misogynists.
Comment: "There is fear and rage when women seek power." Not if they are competent! With every audience a new excuse, Killary, the rotten gift that never stops reeking, is now projecting her delusions onto all American women, and likewise, her failures onto all American men!
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Locations of China and Iran
Locations of China and Iran
As US President Donald Trump hardens his confrontational attitude to Tehran, tearing up the 2015 nuclear deal and calling for a new sanctions regime, China is more than ready to grab the opportunity for trade by opening a new international railroad connecting Tehran and Bayannur, a city in China's Inner Mongolia region.
The exact route of the railroad is yet to be disclosed, as there are currently several major railroad projects, some of them even including China's biggest regional rival, India. But, considering Bayannur is located near the northern border of China and there's already an international railroad to Kazakhstan there, it is likely that the new trade route goes through the territories of former Soviet republics Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
According to the Washington Post, China has sent the inaugural train from Bayannur carrying - you'll never guess - 1,150 tons of sunflower seeds, because Bayannur is China's biggest sunflower seed production area. China exports some 180,000 tons of sunflower seeds every year, supplying Middle Eastern, European and US markets, according to Xinhua.
Comment: So much for sanctions on Iran, which will most likely hurt US allies. See also:
- US sanctions backfire: China opens $10 billion credit line for Iran
- Axios news agency thinks Iran is the 'centerpiece' of China's One Belt One Road Initiative
- Russia-China-Iran: The strategic triangle that is changing the world
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Motorcycles burn following a blast at the Pentecost Church Central Surabaya (GPPS), in Surabaya , East Java, Indonesia May 13, 2018
Motorcycles burn following a blast at the Pentecost Church Central Surabaya (GPPS), in Surabaya , East Java, Indonesia May 13, 2018
The suicide bombers are all members of one family, including teens and children, according to Indonesian police. The Indonesian president said the terrorists used children as suicide bombers.
"The victims are still being identified," said East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera. Police say they have also secured a fourth, unexploded bomb at a church.
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The attacks of 11 September 2001 provided the "new Pearl Harbor", described as "the opportunity of ages". The extremists who have since exploited 11 September come from the era of Ronald Reagan, when far-right groups and "think-tanks" were established to avenge the American "defeat" in Vietnam. In the 1990s, there was an added agenda: to justify the denial of a "peace dividend" following the cold war. The Project for the New American Century was formed, along with the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute and others that have since merged the ambitions of the Reagan administration with those of the current Bush regime.
One of George W Bush's "thinkers" is Richard Perle. I interviewed Perle when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about "total war", I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing America's "war on terror". "No stages," he said. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now."
Comment: This 'total war' rages on and 17 years later, Pilger's statements still stand true. The amount of lies coming through official channels are monumental - black propaganda - all with the aim to turn public opinion into acceptance of their murderous and insane policies around the world. See also: Israel Lobby Calls for an 'Iranian Pearl Harbor'
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Stress can cause sleepless nights and increase heart rates, but little was known about how this links to big societal changes. "We wanted to add in the quantitative data," says Daniele Quercia of Nokia Bell Labs.
Quercia and his colleagues analysed data from people who wore health monitoring devices, such as smartwatches, in San Francisco and London between April 2016 and April 2017. They found that an entire population's sleeping habits and heart rates, and the collective distance walked, can swing out of sync after big societal events.
Reynaldo B. Regis, 53, of Fort Washington, Maryland, worked for the CIA from August 2006 through November 2016, said prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia.
They alleged that Regis improperly searched classified databases and copied the information into personal notebooks, which he then took to his house.
Comment: Maybe Regis saw that Hillary and Comey got away with mishandling classified information and assumed it was OK.
Comment: See also: Hundreds gather in Berlin for pro-Kurdish rally - 'Stop Erdogan's state terror against Kurds!'