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Artists are abandoning Israel's music festival

Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Lana Del Rey
© Anthony AbbottLana Del Rey
More performers have dropped out of the Meteor Festival lineup as fans and human rights activists continue to urge pop singer Lana Del Rey and other slated artists not to "art-wash" Israel's crimes against Palestinians.

The festival is set to take place next week in northern Israel.

On Tuesday, New York-based DJ Volvox stated on Facebook that she decided to cancel her appearance at the festival, citing the "complex" situation.

"My heart goes out to the young Israelis and Palestinians who were looking forward to my show, I recognize that they despise this conflict as we all do and yearn to be free of it," she wrote.

Volvox's cancellation comes days after US-based DJ Python stated that after "talking with friends and some well-informed folks," he wouldn't play the festival.

"[It] would feel really phony to act like I'm super politically active/informed, but I do think about what I feel is wrong or right, and it feels like the right thing to do is not go play," he said. He added that he would be holding a fundraiser for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and Palestinian organizations.
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Biohazard

Thomas Cook holidays: British tourists in Cuba on drips after food poisoning outbreak - Just weeks after contamination killed couple in Egypt

Charlie Bayliss
Daily Mail
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 13:53 UTC
Playa Pesquero
Playa Pesquero
Guests at another Thomas Cook hotel have been put on IV drips after being hit by suspected food poisoning, just days after a couple died from the disease at another of the package holiday company's resorts.

British tourists at the
Playa Pesquero complaint
Playa Pesquero hotel restaurant in Cuba have complained of falling severely ill with diarrhoea and sickness after eating at the restaurant.

The luxury hotel in Cuba has been the site of a number of previous mass sickness outbreak in 2012, as Thomas Cook was forced to pay out £150,000 in compensation to 20 victims. There was another outbreak in 2014.

The latest outbreak in Cuba has been ongoing for the past three week, and hotel staff have allegedly been trying to bribe guests with the offer of paying their medical bills in return for them signing a disclaimer to stop them claiming compensation.

Comment: It's not just holiday operators who have been responsible for mass food poisonings and contaminated produce of late:

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Pistol

Travesty of justice: Young mother with felony history faces prison for using a gun to kill a home intruder

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:23 UTC
Krissy Noble
Do convicted felons have the constitutional right to defend themselves with a firearm? The answer to the question, in most U.S. states is a resounding no. Those who do, like Arkansas native Krissy Noble, face years in prison, all for choosing to protect their lives and the lives of their loved ones with a firearm.

Noble was cleared of all wrongdoing in the Dec. 7th shooting death of Dylan Stancoff, who attacked her in her own home. Noble was pregnant at the time of the shooting when Stancoff, calling himself Cameron White, stopped by her home and asked to speak to Noble's husband who was not home at the time. Saying he was a friend from the military, Stancoff left but returned later, pushed himself into Noble's home, attempted to cover her mouth to prevent her from screaming, and began to struggle with the mother-to-be.

Noble escaped briefly and retrieved a .40 caliber handgun, fired three shots, and killed her attacker. But because Noble pleaded guilty (before the shooting in 2017) to felony possession of marijuana, she now faces six years in prison, all for the crime of using her husband's handgun, a gun she successfully used to defend herself and the life of her unborn baby.

The case against Noble will likely be an open and shut one. After all, she pleaded guilty to drug possession and knew she was prevented by law from owning a weapon, a crime which the state takes seriously. The guns belonged to her husband who is not a convicted felon.
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Candle

'The city is orphaned': 120,000 mourners bid farewell to assassinated Donbass leader in Donetsk


RT
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 12:22 UTC
Funeral
© SputnikPeople wait in line to pay their last respects to Alexandr Zakharchenko in Donetsk, Ukraine.
At least 120,000 people have attended the funeral of Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, who was killed by an explosion in a cafe in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday.

Zakharchenko's remains were placed on display in the lobby of the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in the center of Donetsk. It is not far from Cafe Separ, where the leader of the self-proclaimed DPR was murdered.

Over 120,000 people came to bid farewell to the assassinated leader, a spokesperson for the city council confirmed to reporters.
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Dollar

Australian public servant accidentally overpaid by almost AU$500,000


RT
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 09:11 UTC
Australian money
© Daniel Munoz / Reuters
A public servant in Australia has been paid more than 100 times his normal salary as a result of a misplaced decimal point. He was meant to get a salary of $3,582 but found $360,700 in his account.

The mistake was revealed by the Northern Territory's (NT) auditor-general, who put it down to human error.

"The cause of the overpayment was a combination of two different human errors, those being the erroneous initial data entry and a subsequent failure to adequately address [a system-generated alert]," the auditor-general's report said.

The worker, who was based in a remote area of the Northern Territory, returned the money four weeks later.
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Bell

Venezuela's top prosecutor receives numerous complaints of economic crimes following implementation of Maduro's recovery plan


teleSUR
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab
© ReutersVenezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab
The complaints report crimes of price speculation, hoarding, and economic destabilization.

Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab reported on Thursday that his office has received numerous complaints this week in reporting price speculation, hoarding, and economic destabilization, following the implementation of the Economic Recovery Plan implemented by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

"In a week we have received 140 cases of which 111 were caught red-handed with a total of 131 people arrested, 92 were detained, 29 with precautionary measures of imprisonment and 10 still free," said Saab.

Among the prisoners are several managers of large commercial chains, who speculated and hoarded basic basket products which causes damage to the population.

These people have been indicted for the crimes of resale, speculation, hoarding, boycott and economic destabilization.

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Attention

Polish lawmaker: Islamists should not demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi Arabia

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart
Sat, 28 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Dominik Tarczyński, burqua ban poland
“If you don’t like Christian Europe, go to Saudi Arabia, and deal with those who treat you in the way you expect.”
Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński has waded into the European burqa debate, saying it should be banned partly for security reasons, and partly to make it clear to Islamic radicals that they cannot demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi Arabia.

Mr Tarczyński, a member of Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, made waves in Britain after clashing with left-liberal journalist Cathy Newman over illegal immigration.

Speaking exclusively to Breitbart London shortly after ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson's run-in with the establishment over his criticism of the burqa, the Polish law graduate insisted that Islamic face veils "should be banned in the same way the Christian cross is banned in Saudi Arabia".

He suggested the relationship between the West and the Islamic world was currently unbalanced, citing a mosque which Saudi Arabia's theocratic regime wants to construct in the Polish capital of Warsaw as an example.

"We're happy to have it once they agree for Poland to build a cathedral in Saudi Arabia," he said.
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Bad Guys

13-year-old New Mexico compound victim says children were 'trained to wage jihad'


RT
Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:53 UTC
Jany Leveille Siraj Ibn Wahhaj New Mexico jihad compound
© Tom Clark / ReutersDefendant Jany Leveille (L to R) sits next to her defense lawyer, defendant Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and his defense lawyer
The chief suspect in the case of the New Mexico compound, where 11 children were kept in slum-like conditions, sought to build an army of child recruits to carry out jihad, according to an FBI interview with one of the victims.

Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 37, who was arrested by the FBI and charged with child abuse resulting in the death of his three-year-old son Abdul Ghani, dreamt of turning the children into an army by training them for a religious war against non-believers.

That's according to an FBI interview with a 13-year-old boy who was among the 11 children Wahhaj and his associates kept in wretched conditions for months at a desert compound in Amalia, New Mexico. The interview is included in the agency's affidavit in support of the criminal complaint filed against five adults with hardline Islamist views, and cited by Reuters.

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Arrow Down

Shadowban: Facebook claims 'employee error' caused PragerU's 99.9999% drop in reach

Lucas Nolan
Breitbart
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:59 UTC
facebook mark zuckerberg upset
© AFP
PragerU's recent Facebook shadowbanning was reportedly due to a single "employee error" - this employee has been sent for guideline re-education but is still employed by the company.

Breitbart News spoke with PragerU recently following their issues with Facebook, the conservative non-profit found that many recent posts from their page were suffering from a 99.9999 percent drop in engagement based on Facebook's own dashboard. The Social Media Masters of the Universe also pulled down two PragerU videos, which it labeled "hate speech."

Since then, Facebook has apologized to PragerU, stating that the removal of videos was an error. A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement: "The videos in question were mistakenly removed. While we continue to research what caused this error, we have restored the content because it does not break our Community Standards and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Comment: The internet giants have been manipulating what we see and hear for years and are increasingly getting exposed as tools in the Deep State's information war:

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Green Light

The Alex Salmond Show: The Case For And Against Renationalizing Britain's rail network


RT UK
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:11 UTC
british rail
This week's Alex Salmond Show explores the case for and against renationalization of Britain's rail service, as millions of passengers become increasingly more disgruntled with price hikes and poor service.

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