High-profile Dover Heights masseur Steven Goldberg - behind cult 'Lomi Lomi' massages - is charged with raping a 33-year-old female client at his house
Masseur Steven Goldberg is charged with raping female client
He is due to face court in Sydney's eastern suburbs
The sensual style is considered the 'Rolls Royce of massage'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12691223/lomi-lomi-masseuse-rape-charge-steven-goldberg.html
Angry Birds, Stack: Israeli ads showing Hamas atrocities pop up in children’s video games
London: Maria Julia Assis was sitting down to a meal in her terraced home in north London when her six-year-old son ran into the dining room, his face pale.
The puzzle game on his Android phone had been interrupted by a video showing Hamas militants, terrified Israeli families and blurred graphic footage.
Over a black screen, messages in capital letters from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the first-year student: “We’re being murdered in our homes, executed in our beds … We will make sure that those who harm us pay a heavy price.”
Assis, a 28-year-old barista from Brazil, said that the ad left her son shaken and she quickly deleted the game.
“He was shocked,” she said in a telephone interview. “He literally said, ‘What is this bloody ad doing in my game?’”
Reuters has not been able to establish how the ad came to her son’s video game, but her family isn’t alone. The news agency has documented at least five other cases across Europe where the same pro-Israel video, which carried footage of rocket attacks, a fiery explosion, and masked gunmen, was shown to gamers, including several children.
In at least one case, the ads were played inside the popular Angry Birds game made by SEGA-owned developer Rovio.
Rovio confirmed that “somehow these ads with disturbing content have in error made it through to our game” and were now being blocked manually. Spokesperson Lotta Backlund did not provide details on which of its “dozen or so ad partners” had supplied it with the ad.
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ head of digital, David Saranga, confirmed that the video was a government-promoted ad but said he had “no idea” how it ended up inside various games.
He said the footage was part of a larger advocacy drive by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which has spent $US1.5 million ($2.4 million) on internet ads since Hamas’ October 7 attack on civilians in southern Israel ignited war in Gaza.
Saranga said officials had specifically instructed advertisers “to block it for people under 18” and defended the graphic nature of the ad campaign.
“We want the world to understand that what happened here in Israel,” he said. “It’s a massacre.”
Reuters contacted 43 advertising firms that Rovio listed on its website as “third-party data partners” to try to ascertain who placed the ad in the games.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/angry-birds-stack-israeli-ads-showing-hamas-atrocities-pop-up-in-children-s-video-games-20231031-p5egbw.html
Israeli targets journalists, kills their families as Big Tech & Biden admin silence Palestinians
With Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killing at least twenty Palestinian journalists—and the Biden administration working to muzzle others—Big Tech is quietly coordinating with Tel Aviv to muzzle Palestinian media outfits.
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed three Palestinian journalists on October 25 in one of the deadliest days for local reporters since the military’s bombing campaign began nearly three weeks before. As the hours passed, footage appeared showing the moment Ramallah-based journalist Mohammed Farra learned that his wife and children were all killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s Khan Younes neighborhood.
Similarly heart-rending scenes would play out more than once over the course of the day. Elsewhere in the besieged coastal enclave, an Israeli airstrike killed the wife, son, daughter and infant grandson of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh.
Israel’s attacks on Palestinian journalists came hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured “American Jewish community leaders” that he urged Qatar’s government “to tone down Al Jazeera’s rhetoric about the war in Gaza” during a recent trip to Doha.
Suspicions that Israeli forces deliberately targeted Dahdouh’s family were quickly bolstered by comments from News 13 journalist Zvi Yehezkeli.
“Generally we know the target,” Yehezkeli told audiences within hours of the strike, adding, “for example, today there was a target: the family of an Al Jazeera reporter.”
“In general, we know,” he concluded.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israeli-assassinates-journalists-big-tech-biden-palestinians/
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN that the airstrike was targeting a Hamas commander, whom he accused of "hiding, as they do, behind civilians." Civilian deaths, Hecht also said, are "the tragedy of war."
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Bolivia severs diplomatic ties with Israel, citing 'crimes against humanity'
Bolivia's government is breaking diplomatic ties with Israel, the Bolivian foreign ministry said on Tuesday, accusing Israel of committing crimes against humanity in its attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Bolivia in 2009 cut diplomatic ties with Israel in protest of its attacks on the Gaza Strip.
In 2020, the government of President Jeanine Anez reestablished ties.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivia-severs-diplomatic-ties-with-israel-citing-crimes-against-humanity-2023-10-31/
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