Anonymous ID: 41fef6 May 19, 2018, 7:41 a.m. No.1468659   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The arrests of more than 20 Christians in southern Karachi city have sparked anger among the minority community, which claims the police unlawfully detained Christian youths and leveled charges against them after months.

Pakistani police finally brought dozens of "missing" Christians to a court in the southern city of Karachi on May 16 after denying their arrests for weeks.

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The families of the "disappeared" Christians had complained that the security forces picked up more than two dozens of Christians — mainly youths — without any charges from the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area and some other parts of the port city.

Christians in Pakistan face widespread legal and cultural discrimination and are often targeted by Islamists and fundamentalist mobs. The latest arrests in Karachi have further increased the sense of insecurity among the minority community.

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Anonymous ID: 41fef6 May 19, 2018, 7:57 a.m. No.1468738   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8742 >>8750 >>8767 >>8904

Hours after the Texas school massacre that killed 10 sick hoaxers took to the Internet to spread lies suggesting the deaths were faked, and even posted doctored images showing the shooter in a 'Hillary 2016' hat.

 

Several trolls sought to discredit crying child survivors by suggesting they were 'crisis actors', who were reading accounts of seeing their friends being shot and killed from a script.

 

Some posts were quickly flagged and removed by Facebook and Twitter, but many remain online as Santa Fe High School continues to mourn the eight students and two teachers who died at the hands of 17-year-old gunman Dimitrios Pagourtzis.

Disinformation analyst Chris Sampson told the Washington Post that the first fake Facebook profile of the shooter emerged just 20 minutes after his name was made public.

 

'It seemed this time like they were more ready for this,' he said. 'Like someone just couldn't wait to do it.'

 

Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists flocked to online chat rooms such as 4chan to post disinformation suggesting the shooting was a hoax.

One 4chan post suggested the shooting could not possibly have happened at 8.30am, as reported, because lessons only started at 9.15am. In fact, the day starts at 7.15am, as shown on the Santa Fe High School website.

 

Another 4chan post, uncovered by Daily Dot, used a tenuous tie to Senator Rand Paul to suggest the massacre was faked by the political establishment.

 

'Rand Paul's nephew was the principal of Santa Fe HS up til a couple months ago. I smell bulls***,' the poster stated, without elaborating any further.

 

One 4chan users claimed the lack of videos of students fleeing the shooting suggested it had somehow been fabricated.

 

On Twitter, meanwhile, trolls responded to videos of high school students giving tearful interviews about the attack to spread the sick theory that they were 'crisis actors'.

Footage of Santa Fe student Paige Curry quickly drew offensive comments of this nature, with one user commenting, 'She's obviously reading from a script.'

 

The term was thrust into the public eye after the Parkland shooting, when survivors turned activists David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez were accused of being paid actors for the gun control lobby.

 

These theories often reach a wide audience, with one crisis actor video after Parkland rocketing to the top of YouTube's 'Trending' list.

 

Hoaxes intending to score political points also emerged after last year's shooting in Las Vegas, with some suggesting gunman Stephen Paddock was a far-left Antifa activist.

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Anonymous ID: 41fef6 May 19, 2018, 8:05 a.m. No.1468792   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8802 >>9216

Julian Assange's guest list in the seven weeks leading up to the release of hacked Democratic party emails by WikiLeaks has been revealed, and includes RT reporters, German hacker Andy Müller-Maguhn and documentary maker Michael Moore.

 

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In total 80 people visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in the summer of 2016, which was around the time when Assange announced he was going to release emails from Hilary Clinton's US presidential campaign.

 

Others included Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and prominent WikiLeaks supporters like British designer Vivienne Westwood and left-wing journalist John Pilger, according to visitor logs obtained by the Guardian and Focus Ecuador.

Journalists from RT, which US intelligence officials have described as Vladimir Putin's 'principal international propaganda outlet', were particularly prominent on the guest list.

 

They included the network's London bureau chief, Nikolay Bogachikhin, who visited twice, and Afshin Rattansi, a British citizen who presents a news segment called Going Underground, and saw Assange four times.

 

RT has denied Clinton's emails were ever discussed in these visits.

The Democratic Party emails published by WikiLeaks are at the center of special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Putin's regime.

 

The emails were highly embarrassing to Hilary Clinton and their release is seen by many as a key factor that propelled Trump to victory.

 

Mueller is focusing on how the hacked emails reached WikiLeaks and who knew about them. WikiLeaks or Assange could have been handed them physically or they could have been delivered electronically.

Müller-Maguhn, a member of the German hacker association Chaos Computer Club, has admitted to delivering a thumb drive to Assange in 2016, but denies ever being in possession of the Democratic Party emails…….

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Anonymous ID: 41fef6 May 19, 2018, 8:10 a.m. No.1468812   🗄️.is 🔗kun

WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania (meh-LAH'-nee-ah) Trump is back at the White House after an extended hospitalization for a kidney procedure.

 

The White House says the first lady returned to the White House on Saturday morning. She had been at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington since having an embolization procedure Monday for an unspecified kidney condition that the White House said was benign.

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Anonymous ID: 41fef6 May 19, 2018, 8:13 a.m. No.1468830   🗄️.is 🔗kun

White House pushes ahead with Mideast peace plan

BY MATTHEW LEE

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is aiming to roll out its much-hyped but long-delayed Middle East peace plan next month amid signs it may further alienate the Palestinians by slashing millions of dollars in funding for humanitarian and development projects in the West Bank and Gaza.

 

Five U.S. officials and a congressional aide say the administration intends to release the peace plan in mid- to late-June, shortly after the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, although they cautioned that the timing could slip depending on developments in the region. They say the plan's main authors — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and Trump's special envoy for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt — have already begun quietly briefing select allies and partners on elements of the proposal.

 

Yet any Palestinian willingness to even consider the plan would require conditions to improve and anger to subside considerably in the coming weeks, an unlikely scenario as the Palestinians say evidence of one-sided Trump giveaways to Israel continues to pile up. U.S. allies in Europe and the Persian Gulf also have felt compelled to criticize the administration for its approach. Ostensibly, Trump would need buy-in from those same countries to build enough momentum for any peace plan to succeed…..

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