Anonymous ID: 31f6c4 Sept. 26, 2021, 9:32 a.m. No.14666127   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6281

So much for Democracy

 

https://ekurd.net/iraqi-court-orders-arrest-2021-09-26

 

BAGHDAD,— An Iraqi court on Sunday issued arrest warrants for three people accused of participating in a conference that called for normalization of ties with Israel.

Warrants have been issued for Wisam al-Hardan, Mithal Aloosi, and Sahar Karim al-Tai, the Supreme Judicial Council announced. Legal measures will be taken against other participants in the conference when they are identified, the court added.

On Friday, more than 300 Iraqis – Sunnis and Shias from across the country – met in Iraqi Kurdistan capital Erbil at a conference organized by a US think tank, the Center for Peace Communications (CPC), and called for normalization of ties with Israel.

 

“We demand our integration into the Abraham Accords,” Sahar al-Tai, an employee from Iraq’s Ministry of Culture, read from the conference’s closing statement, according to AFP. The Abraham Accords are a US-led Middle East peace initiative that saw Bahrain, Morocco, the UAE, and Sudan forge ties with Israel.

“Just as these agreements provide for diplomatic relations between the signatories and Israel, we also want normal relations with Israel,” Tai said.

 

The conference was condemned by Baghdad and Erbil. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called it “illegal” and said ties with Israel are constitutionally rejected. Spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Jutyar Adil said the conference was held “without our approval or knowledge” and does “not reflect the views and policies of the KRG.”

 

Iraq’s presidency, the Sunni Endowment, Muqtada al-Sadr, and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) also lined up to condemn the conference and voice their support for the Palestinian people and opposition to Israeli occupation and settlement.

Anonymous ID: 31f6c4 Sept. 26, 2021, 9:39 a.m. No.14666166   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-says-hell-hire-border-agents-risk-losing-their-jobs-under-biden-1632800?piano_t=1

 

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday that he'll hire Border Patrol agents concerned about losing their jobs under the Biden administration, which is investigating their treatment of migrants along the Texas border.

 

The agents are under scrutiny after footage and images circulated last week showing them on horseback and charging at Haitian migrants. The Department of Homeland Security temporarily suspended the horse patrol unit in Del Rio, Texas.

Responding to the footage of the agents' actions, President Joe Biden pledged Friday that "people will pay."

But speaking on Fox News Sunday, Abbott defended the Border Patrol agents.

 

"They wouldn't have been in that situation had the Biden administration enforced the immigration laws and secured the border in the first place," Abbott stated.

He offered to hire agents whose jobs are under threat "to help Texas secure our border."

 

"If they are at risk of losing their job, at a president who is abandoning his duty to secure the border, you have a job in the state of Texas," he added.

Anonymous ID: 31f6c4 Sept. 26, 2021, 9:49 a.m. No.14666224   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/21/surveillance-social-media-police-microsoft-shadowdragon-kaseware/

 

A MICHIGAN STATE POLICE CONTRACT, obtained by The Intercept, sheds new light on the growing use of little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement agencies and corporations watch people’s social media and other website activity.

 

The software, put out by a Wyoming company called ShadowDragon, allows police to suck in data from social media and other internet sources, including Amazon, dating apps, and the dark web, so they can identify persons of interest and map out their networks during investigations. By providing powerful searches of more than 120 different online platforms and a decade’s worth of archives, the company claims to speed up profiling work from months to minutes. ShadowDragon even claims its software can automatically adjust its monitoring and help predict violence and unrest. Michigan police acquired the software through a contract with another obscure online policing company named Kaseware for an “MSP Enterprise Criminal Intelligence System.”

Anonymous ID: 31f6c4 Sept. 26, 2021, 10:25 a.m. No.14666374   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6505

That's just cold

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-suspends-unemployment-insurance-healthcare-vaccine-mandate-2021-9

 

Healthcare workers who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine and are fired for failing to comply with a new state law will not be able to collect unemployment benefits unless they present a doctor-approved request for medical accommodation, according to the New York Department of Labor.

 

New York's new vaccine mandate, which goes into effect Monday, makes it necessary for workers in New York's hospitals and nursing homes to have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Employees working at in home care, hospice, and adult care facilities need to be vaccinated by October 7. The mandate also applies to all out-of-state and contract medical staff who practice in New York.

Anonymous ID: 31f6c4 Sept. 26, 2021, 10:38 a.m. No.14666443   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6471 >>6472 >>6480

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brian-murphy-whistleblower-trump-border-russia-racism-1232427/

 

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower leveled a series of bombshell accusations Sunday in his first television interview, accusing his Trump administration superiors of pressing for manipulated intelligence on three critical subjects: Russian support for Donald Trump, the Mexican border, and the white supremacist threat inside the United States.

 

Brian Murphy, the former principal deputy undersecretary in DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, filed a whistleblower complaint last year — as well as a handful of internal complaints and reports — that all painted a frightening picture of how things were running in the department tasked with keeping Americans safe. “From the outset, there were three things that I was told that we would look to manipulate intelligence on and bend the truth about,” Murphy told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week. “And I told them upfront that I wasn’t going to do it.”

 

Former DHS director Chad Wolf accused him of having a credibility problem, and removed him from his position last August, citing claims that –he violated legal requirements regarding the collection of information about journalists during riots in Portland, Oregon==. Murphy denied those claims.