I wonder how often this happens?
The city police on Thursday arrested two more persons, including a doctor, in connection with the child trafficking case for allegedly selling a newborn, after informing the mother of the infant that she gave birth to a stillborn.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2020/aug/07/two-more-arrested-in-child-trafficking-case-in-andhra-pradesh-2180212.html
James Woods Twat
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https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1291996303648407555
Wasn't somebody here earlier claiming to be from Romania? Atlantic Council's 'Digital Forensics Research Lab' getting more and more Pro-Trump groups banned again.
Facebook removes small pro-Trump network based in Romania
Published August 7, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it recently removed a small network of accounts operating from Romania that had been promoting President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign with stories about his support from conservatives, Black Americans, Christians and followers of the QAnon web of baseless conspiracy theories…
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scitech/technology/750217/facebook-removes-small-pro-trump-network-based-in-romania/story/
US ex-commandos sentenced to 20 years in prison over failed attempt to depose Venezuela's Maduro
8 Aug, 2020
Two former US military special force troopers, who were captured in a botched attempt to infiltrate Venezuela and allegedly capture President Nicolas Maduro, have been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Venezuela's chief prosecutor announced the sentences handed to Luke Denman, 34 and Airan Berry, 41 for their roles in the failed operation, which allegedly aimed to kidnap the country’s elected leader and fly him to the US. According to Tarek William Saab, the pair – both employees of a US private military firm – admitted to crimes of conspiracy, arms trafficking and terrorism, and were each sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
Denman and Berr, both decorated former US military officers, were captured in May along with a group of fighters they had helped train after attempting to infiltrate Venezuela on boats from Colombian territory. Their plan was reportedly to kidnap President Maduro, seize control of an airport in Caracas and fly the Venezuelan leader to the US.
The so-called ‘Operation Gideon’ was prepared by the Florida-based security firm Silvercorp USA, though the fiasco earned it the nickname ‘Bay of Piglets’ in the media, a reference to the failed US-backed 1961 invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces.
The head of the company, Jordan Goudreau, published a contract that Silvercorp had signed with the US-backed 'interim president' Juan Guaido to conduct the incursion and topple the Venezuelan government. After the publication emerged, Guaido blasted the paper as false…
https://www.rt.com/news/497452-us-commandos-sentenced-venezuela/
Honk Hong fires back at "shameless" U.S. sanctions
August 8, 2020 / 8:06 AM / cbs/AFP
China on Saturday slammed the United States for imposing "barbarous" sanctions in response to Beijing's crackdown in Hong Kong, capping a dramatic week of deteriorating relations between the world's two biggest economies. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong government described the sanctions as "shameless and despicable," adding that it fully supported "countermeasures."
In the toughest U.S. action on Hong Kong since China imposed a sweeping new security law on the territory, Washington on Friday sanctioned a group of Chinese and Hong Kong officials – including the city's leader Carrie Lam.
The move came after President Donald Trump's administration forced Chinese internet giants TikTok and WeChat to end all operations in the U.S., in a twin diplomatic-commercial offensive set to grow ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November.
China on Saturday criticized the sanctions as "barbarous and rude."
"The ill intentions of U.S. politicians to support people who are anti-China and messing up Hong Kong have been clearly revealed," Beijing's Liaison Office in Hong Kong said in a statement.
The Treasury Department announced it was freezing the U.S. assets of Chief Executive Carrie Lam and 10 other senior officials, including Luo Huining – the head of the Liaison Office.
It accused the sanctioned individuals of being "directly responsible for implementing Beijing's policies of suppression of freedom and democratic processes".
The move criminalizes any U.S. financial transactions with the sanctioned officials.
In a short statement, Luo said he welcomed the blacklisting.
"I have done what I should do for the country and for Hong Kong," he said. "I don't have a dime's worth in foreign assets."
Honk Kong's commerce secretary Edward Yau warned that the "savage and unreasonable" sanctions could have blowback for American businesses in Hong Kong.
"If the U.S. unilaterally carries out this kind of unreasonable action, it will in the end affect U.S. companies," he told reporters.
Beijing's security law was imposed in late June, following last year's huge pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, sending a political chill through the semi-autonomous city.
Last week, four students were arrested in Hong Kong in the first police operation to enforce the new law, officials said. Arrests have been made previously under the new law for banners and slogans displayed at protests.
Since the law was imposed, authorities have postponed elections, citing the coronavirus pandemic, issued arrest warrants for six exiled pro-democracy activists and launched a crackdown on other activists.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the security law violated promises made by China ahead of Hong Kong's 1997 handover that the city could keep key freedoms and autonomy for 50 years.
"We will not stand by while the people of Hong Kong suffer brutal oppression at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party or its enablers," Pompeo tweeted.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/honk-hong-china-us-sanctions/
Officer fired for allegedly mishandling explicit images of University of Utah student
August 8, 2020 / 7:37 AM / CBS/AP
A police officer accused of showing off explicit images of a University of Utah student while investigating an extortion case she filed before her 2018 death has been fired, officials said Friday. CBS affiliate KUTV reports Officer Miguel Deras' employment with the Logan City Police Department ended "effective immediately" after an internal review of an investigation released by the state's Department of Public Safety, Chief Gary Jensen said in a statement.
The investigation concluded that Deras "mishandled sensitive evidence" pertaining to 21-year-old Lauren McCluskey's case while he was employed with the university's police department.
A police officer accused of showing off explicit images of a University of Utah student while investigating an extortion case she filed before her 2018 death has been fired, officials said Friday. CBS affiliate KUTV reports Officer Miguel Deras' employment with the Logan City Police Department ended "effective immediately" after an internal review of an investigation released by the state's Department of Public Safety, Chief Gary Jensen said in a statement.
The investigation concluded that Deras "mishandled sensitive evidence" pertaining to 21-year-old Lauren McCluskey's case while he was employed with the university's police department.
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Lauren McCluskey University of Utah
"The conclusions drawn in the DPS report are inconsistent with the high expectations and standards placed upon our officers by the community and our department," Jensen said.
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The investigation, released Wednesday, found that a group of university officers made inappropriate comments about explicit photos of McCluskey shortly before she was shot and killed by a man she had briefly dated…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lauren-mccluskey-case-utah-officer-fired-explicit-images/
World's Top Epidemiologists - Masks Don't Work!
Sat, 08/08/2020 - 08:10
Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
That’s less than one-third of the number of Danes who die from pneumonia or influenza in a given year.
Despite this success, Danish leaders recently found themselves on the defensive. The reason is that Danes aren’t wearing face masks, and local authorities for the most part aren’t even recommending them.
This apparently did not sit well with Danish health officials. They responded by noting there is little conclusive evidence that face masks are an effective way to limit the spread of respiratory viruses.
Denmark is not alone.
Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never” wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they “always” wear masks when they go out.
Denmark is not alone.
Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they “never” wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they “always” wear masks when they go out. Dutch public health officials recently explained why they’re not recommending masks…
Moar: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/worlds-top-epidemiologists-masks-dont-work
Lockdown 'killed two people for every three that died of coronavirus': 16,000 people in the UK died in five weeks as hospitals shut down to deal with COVID while 25,000 died from the virus
Updated: 03:42 EDT, 8 August 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8605885/Lockdown-killed-two-people-three-died-coronavirus.html
Robots are now Racists?
Yes, they really are saying this.
A University of Cambridge study examining the depiction of artificial intelligence in film, television, Google searches, images, and voices, suggests it is yet another area that showcases racism.
While most would likely assume a machine cannot have a race, the researchers said that they do indeed have “racial identities” influenced by “real world” stereotypes…
Moar:
https://www.rt.com/usa/497287-cambridge-artificial-intelligence-racist/
https://www.infowars.com/blade-runner-hal-9000-racist-whiteness-of-artificial-intelligence-exacerbates-racial-inequality-new-study-suggests/