The Palestinian hostage was hospitalized with injuries such as a torn rectum, broken ribs & ruptured bowels.
https://t.me/mintpress_news/6783
Channel 12 Hebrew has aired scenes of Israeli occupation soldiers hiding behind the cover of the guards' shields and raping a Palestinian prisoner. The footage also exposed the Israeli torture of other Palestinians inside Sde Teiman prison.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/videos-israeli-soldiers-abuse-palestinian-detainees-rcna123214
Videos appear to show Israeli soldiers abusing bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees
In a graphic scene, a group of detainees lie on the ground. Some are naked. An Israeli soldier can be seen stomping on the head of a Palestinian man, who covers his face with his bound hands.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-01/ty-article/report-israeli-soldiers-filmed-using-detainees-in-gaza-as-human-shields/00000190-6f2b-d6fc-afba-ef7b8ad20000
Report: Israeli Soldiers Filmed Using Detainees in Gaza as 'Human Shields'
Video footage published by Al Jazeera shows soldiers ordering Palestinians, wearing Israeli army uniforms with body cameras attached to them, to enter buildings and tunnel openings ahead of the soldiers
https://x.com/hamdahsalhut/status/1807488923301728265
>soldiers ordering Palestinians, wearing Israeli army uniforms with body cameras attached to them, to enter buildings and tunnel openings ahead of the soldiers
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8gp0DptYS6/
>Too Late To Apologize
“Dude, I won’t even take calls from Ukraine,” Trump’s vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance said in an October email exchange with blogger and entrepreneur Charles Johnson.
Johnson himself passed these messages on to The Washington Post, which published them and also wrote that Vance is against American aid to Ukraine.
"Two very high-ranking guys (from Ukraine) contacted me. Head of their intelligence. Head of the Air Force. Complaining about F16s," Vance also wrote.
>“I spent 24 years in the National Guard, some of that full-time. I was an artilleryman. I deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom."
her campaign has the official backing of the government
Gender confirming surgery (also known as sex reassignment or gender affirming surgery) does more than change a person’s body. It affirms how they think and feel about their own gender and what it means to who they are.
>it raises very serious questions about continuing to engage in a system that seems so obviously corrupt and rigged
https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/lawyers-for-accused-9-11-terrorists-say-move-to-revoke-plea-deal-was-corrupt/
Lawyers for accused 9/11 terrorists say move to revoke plea deal was ‘corrupt’
Lawyers for three alleged 9/11 terrorists fumed Wednesday at Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to revoke plea deals that would’ve spared their clients the death penalty, calling the move “corrupt.”
“We have had an unprecedented act by a government official to pull back what was a valid agreement,” Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, said during a hearing in Guantanamo Bay, according to CNN.
“For us, it raises very serious questions about continuing to engage in a system that seems so obviously corrupt and rigged,” he added.
Austin, 70, scrapped plea deals last week that were extended to Hawsawi, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed by the Office of Military Commissions, which is prosecuting the case.
The pre-trial agreements sparked a furor among family members of 9/11 victims and survivors of the attacks, with many slamming the deals as a miscarriage of justice and arguing that the three alleged 9/11 co-conspirators should face trial and be subject to the death penalty if found guilty.
The defense secretary defended revoking the plea deals on Tuesday, telling reporters that he did not take the decision “lightly.”
“There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think of 9/11 and the Americans that were murdered that day; also those who died trying to save lives and the troops and their families who gave so much for this country in the years following that,” Austin said during a joint press conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Australian officials.
“I’m deeply mindful of my duty to all those whose lives were lost or changed forever on 9/11, and I fully understand that no measure of justice can ever make up for their loss,” he added.
“So this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly, but I have long believed that the families of the victims, our servicemembers, and the American public deserve the opportunity to see military commissions — commission trials carried out in this case.”
At Wednesday’s hearing, which was scheduled before the plea deals were announced and then later withdrawn, Ruiz argued that the agreements were “years” in the making, and made “ in good faith … only to have that taken away.”
The agreement was the result of more than two years of negotiations. Ruiz noted that parties, including the prosecution, had worked “for years … in good faith” to reach the pretrial agreement, “only to have that taken away.”
Gary Sowards, a defense attorney for Mohammad, argued at the hearing that Austin lacked the authority under the military’s Manual for Military Commission to scrap the plea deals because the alleged terrorists had “begun very important, substantive, specific performance” to hold up their end of the deal.
Sowards further indicated that he intends to “explore” how Austin may have been “coerced and influenced” to revoke the agreements.
“We should not gratify the chaos that is resulting from this precipitous decision,” he said.
Prosecutor Clayton Trivett told the judge that the government had not yet worked through “the issues raised” by the defense.
“’We want to consult with people’ — that sounds like ‘we want to get our stories together,’” Sowards said of Trivett’s comments.
“There is no story that says what happened on Aug. 2 was authorized after what happened on July 31.”
A senior defense official told CNN that Austin “exercised his own independent judgment” when striking the plea deals and that the Pentagon chief “acted lawfully.”
Q course?
>Q course
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces_selection_and_training
>Boeing remains confident in the Starliner spacecraft and its ability to return safely with crew
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pittsburgh-police-cuts-staff-between-3-7-a-m-no-longer-respond-if-not-in-progress-emergency
Pittsburgh Police Cuts Staff Between 3-7 A.M., No Longer Respond If Not ‘In-Progress Emergency’
https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/big-changes-pittsburgh-bureau-police-staffing-are-effect/ME4OY4CRSVG4HHDA53GFEYENSU/
From 3 a.m. to 7 a.m., there won’t be a desk officer at any of the six zone stations. Instead, call boxes linked to 911 have been installed for emergencies. And on some overnight shifts, there will be 22 officers covering the entire city.
>House Oversight requests transcribed interviews with Biden administration climate envoy
you're fuckin weird dude
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-primaries-discrepancies-voting-problems-machines-8019db17829c7b1fbae5fb3fde623a4b
Voting machine contract under scrutiny following discrepancies in Puerto Rico’s primaries
Puerto Rico’s elections commission said Tuesday that it’s reviewing its contract with a U.S. electronic voting company after hundreds of discrepancies were discovered following the island’s heated primaries.
The problem stemmed from a software issue that caused machines supplied by Dominion Voting Systems to incorrectly calculate vote totals, said Jessika Padilla Rivera, the commission’s interim president.
While no one is contesting the results from the June 2 primary that correctly identify the winners, machine-reported vote counts were lower than the paper ones in some cases, and some machines reversed certain totals or reported zero votes for some candidates.
“The concern is that we obviously have elections in November, and we must provide the (island) not only with the assurance that the machine produces a correct result, but also that the result it produces is the same one that is reported,” Padilla said.
More than 6,000 Dominion voting machines were used in Puerto Rico’s primaries, with the company stating that software issues stemmed from the digital files used to export results from the machines.
The contract between Dominion and the elections commission ends June 30.
José Varela, vice president of Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives, called for Padilla to appear at a public hearing Thursday to address the issues.
“We cannot allow the public’s confidence in the voting process to continue to be undermined as we approach the general elections,” he said.
The problems called to mind the island’s botched 2020 primaries, when a lack of ballots at some centers forced the government to reschedule voting in a first for the U.S. territory.
On June 2, Puerto Rico held primary elections to select gubernatorial candidates for the pro-statehood New Progressive Party and the Popular Democratic Party, which supports the island’s territorial status.
In a surprise upset, Jenniffer González, Puerto Rico’s congressional representative, beat Gov. Pedro Pierluisi in the primary held by the New Progressive Party. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz defeated Sen. Juan Zaragoza in the primary held by their Popular Democratic Party.
Both parties reported hundreds of ballots showing inaccurate results, with the PNP reporting over 700 errors and the PPD pointing to some 350 discrepancies. These inaccuracies affected ballots for positions including governor, mayor and resident commissioner.
In response to the discrepancies, the elections commission conducted a full vote tally and audited paper receipts from hundreds of ballot-counting machines.
Edwin García Feliciano, Puerto Rico’s Ombudsman, called the incident a “threat” to the island’s electoral system and called on the governor and the island’s federal control board that oversees the island’s finances to establish a plan to guarantee a better outcome in the upcoming general elections.
“All planning is based on resolving emergencies, including unlikely ones,” García Feliciano said. “But predictable circumstances, which are well known to the public, cannot be addressed by improvisation and in a rush.”
The island is now preparing for the November general election, where voters will choose a new governor and local representatives. While Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, they are not allowed to vote in the U.S. presidential elections. ___
Who was the site agent? She?
all for a larp
https://apnews.com/article/tina-peters-colorado-clerk-election-conspiracy-ddc433ca603cf9bce5f92f9449606e40
Colorado clerk who became hero to election conspiracists wanted to preserve data
Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, a hero to election conspiracy theorists who is accused of orchestrating a breach of election security equipment, was trying to prevent voting information from being erased, her lawyer said at the start of her trial Wednesday.
Under the laws in place in 2021, when Peters allowed a man who prosecutors say was working with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to make a copy of a Dominion Voting Systems computer’s hard drive, she was allowed to hire a “consultant” to make such a copy, defense attorney Amy Jones said during opening statements.
“She believed she needed to save that data,” said Jones, who did not deny that a copy was made.
But prosecutor Robert Shapiro portrayed the man as a “cyber mercenary” who Peters brought in without conducting a background check and committed identity theft by passing him off as another person who had obtained clearance to work for her office. He said Peters contacted the man, who has not been charged, after she met with Douglas Frank, another person working with Lindell, one of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists. Frank, an Ohio math teacher, had been traveling around the country looking for evidence of voter fraud when he met with Peters and she hatched the plan, he said.
Despite that, Shapiro told jurors the case against Peters was not about election fraud or conspiracy theories.
https://archive.is/QyL2O
Facebook’s race-blind practices around hate speech came at the expense of Black users
Researchers proposed a fix to the biased algorithm, but one internal document predicted pushback from ‘conservative partners’
2021
https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1821237085182787901
The Georgia State Election Board has voted to accept a new rule requiring counties to preserve voting machine memory cards which contain ballot images, audit logs, etc. This came after they discovered that 1.7 million ballot images were missing from the 2020 election.
>test them all
panic
what is hanx up to
Rowe personally directed cuts to the USSS agents who do threat assessments for events.
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https://wentworthreport.com/2020/12/07/explosive-video-of-car-crash-killing-boyfriend-of-kemps-daughter-sparks-conspiracy-theories/
hoping it was a storm reference
there must be military grade orbital jump suits by now
The daughter of Rodney Aran and Virginia Aran, she lost her parents during a Space Pirate raid on her home of K-2L. Later, Samus was adopted by the mysterious Chozo and taken to Zebes, where she was infused with their DNA and raised to become a warrior. Once she reached adulthood, Samus joined the Federation Police and served under the Commanding Officer Adam Malkovich. Though she ultimately left to become a Bounty Hunter, she was nonetheless hired by the Galactic Federation on many occasions. Equipped with her cybernetic Power Suit, Samus has become famous for accomplishing missions previously thought impossible.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/trump-asked-ukraine-leader-phone-call-look-why-investigation-biden-n1058551
“I would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine. They say CrowdStrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people … the server, they say Ukraine has it,” Trump said on the call, according to the transcript.
Trump goes on to say he would like to have Barr "call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it." He added, "Whatever you can do, it's very important that you do it if that's possible."
Though it wasn't exactly clear what Trump was referring to, CrowdStrike is the name of the cybersecurity firm that was hired to investigate the hack of the Democratic National Committee in 2016. DOJ officials were not able to shed any light on the matter.
CrowdStrike, in a statement, said that it had already "provided all forensic evidence and analysis" to the FBI regarding its DNC hack investigation.
>CrowdStrike is the name of the cybersecurity firm that was hired to investigate the hack of the Democratic National Committee in 2016