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Anonymous ID: 7c7f2c Jan. 12, 2023, 10:27 a.m. No.18131013   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1070 >>1331 >>1436 >>1491 >>1596 >>1611 >>1635

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/biden-escaped-with-more-secret-papers-than-whistleblowers:-s

 

Biden escaped with more secret papers than whistleblowers: Snowden

 

Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden considered on Thursday that US President Joe Biden seems to have gotten away with holding on to more classified documents than many whistleblowers.

 

A couple of days ago, the White House confirmed that in November, Biden's lawyers found classified documents while clearing space in his office at the Penn Center, a Washington-based think tank. The White House's special counsel said the aides immediately contacted the US National Archives, which in turn forwarded the information to the Justice Department.

 

CBS News, which reported first on the documents, cited two sources with knowledge of the inquiry as saying that roughly 10 classified documents were found.

 

"Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner [convicted of leaking the National Security Agency report] was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document," Snowden tweeted.

 

"Meanwhile Biden, Trump, Clinton, Petraeus… these guys have dozens, hundreds [of documents]. No jail," he pointed out.

 

According to Snowden, the real scandal is that the US Department of Justice found out about the matter a week prior to the midterm elections and decided to remain silent about this case.

 

On Monday, media reported that US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a federal prosecutor to investigate how the classified materials ended up in the office.

 

In a related context, CNN cited a source familiar with the matter as saying that the classified documents dated between 2013 and 2016 are related to Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom.

 

Earlier, US media reported, citing unnamed sources, that aides to Biden had discovered at least one additional batch of classified documents in another location that was used by him after serving as vice president.

 

According to NBC News, the classification level, number, and exact location of the additional documents were not immediately clear, adding that it was also not clear when the additional documents were discovered.

 

On Tuesday, Senator Mark Warner, the Intelligence Committee's Democratic chairman, said he requested a briefing on the first batch of the Biden documents. In the same context, a spokesperson for Senator Marco Rubio, the committee's Republican vice chair, said Rubio and Warner had written to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, asking for access to the classified documents.

 

The recent findings have drawn comparisons to the FBI's August 2022 raid on Trump's Mar-a-logo residence in Florida, which recovered more than 300 classified documents that were once in the former US President's possession. Trump said he wondered when US authorities would raid Biden's home.

Anonymous ID: 7c7f2c Jan. 12, 2023, 10:38 a.m. No.18131085   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1093 >>1436 >>1491 >>1596 >>1611 >>1635

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/art-culture/pedophilic-colors-of-benetton:-italian-fashion-house-sexuali

 

Pedophilic Colors of Benetton: Italian fashion house sexualizes kids

30 Dec 2022 18:34

 

Italian fashion brand United Colors of Benetton is under fire for posting pedophilic photos as part of its clothing campaign. It demonstrates children as models in underwear.

 

People took to social media to criticize and call out the fashion brand days after American actress Busy Philipps called them out on Instagram for "sexualizing" children.

 

Philipps wrote: "I don't know where the disconnect is with people and they're like, 'well, if you see that [sexualization], then that's your problem'. You're having children pose like adults whilst wearing underwear? Maybe I'm just hyper-aware of that now. Obviously, my kids are the same age and it freaks me out."

 

Benetton has since then deleted the photos from social media.

 

This comes after Balenciaga came under fire as well last month for showing children, as part of its clothing campaign too, wearing bondage gear.

 

Social media users rushed to draw a parallel between the fashion brands, highlighting how the two have jeopardized children and put them on display for profit, calling for the protection of minors.

 

Other users urged the brand to reconsider its options, saying there were other ways of selling clothes that did not involve the sexualization of children.

 

"Now, the clothing brand Benetton is sexualizing kids for profit. It’s never necessary or appropriate to use children to model underwear," one netizen wrote. "Let’s put an end to pedo culture & child exploitation."

 

This is not the first controversy of the sort that the Italian brand has been involved in, having done this sort of stunt back in 2018 and 1991, where they used nude children - and even babies - to promote their fashion items, stark evidence of the exploitive, pedophilic nature of the brand.

 

The children were posing in a highly questionable, adult-like manner - they were instructed to pose in a way that might be seen in professional swimwear or lingerie modeling -, drawing the ire of thousands online, as children are not meant for such a "business".

 

Benetton did not even attempt to cover up for the lude, almost pornographic way the children were exploited and forced to pose in the controversial ad campaign.

 

One question remains regarding this stunt or ad campaign: why would children's underwear or swimwear need to be promoted, to begin with? Especially when it is at the expense of other children. Additionally, why has cancel culture not come for the company that used naked children and babies in its ad campaigns?