Thanks for the well wishes fren … they already tightened the gun laws ridiculously here after the whole Port Arthur thing, so they cant get much worse … but that only gets them (guns) out of the hands of the law abiding citizens, not the criminals, as we saw here.
I doubt that the Melbourne shooting will have any ramifications for us, but will wait and see.
Australian DJ charged after boy, 2, snatched off San Francisco street
Sourced from QRes#7934
An Australian DJ has been charged with kidnapping and child endangerment after he was caught by bystanders when he allegedly attempted to snatch a two-year-old boy on a busy San Francisco street.
Roscoe Bradley Holyoake, a 34-year-old from Perth known as DJ Roski, is being held at the San Francisco County Jail on $US500,000 ($NZ739,000) bond.
Police say a mother reported Holyoake tried to grab her son while they were walking near the corner of Market and Noe streets just after midday on Friday, April 12.
The mother was holding her son's hand and carrying a baby in a front pack.
Bystanders described to San Francisco TV station KTVU how Holyoake had the toddler in his arms and the mother, who was screaming "Police, police, help me" refused to let her son go.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/australian-dj-charged-after-boy-2-snatched-off-san-francisco-street
NZ Police have released a timeline of the day of the Christchurch shooting. There were 18 minutes between the first emergency call and apprehending the shooter.
https://twitter.com/HannahD15/status/1118315275126857728
https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/christchurch-shootings-timeline.pdf
Climate change narrative takes a hit - Peter Ridd wins in court
In May 2018, after an academic career of more than 30 years, Peter had his employment terminated as a professor of physics at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. Peter had spoken against the accepted orthodoxy that climate change was ‘killing’ the Great Barrier Reef.
There’s some absolute rubbish being spoken about the reef and people’s livelihoods are being put in jeopardy. If nobody will stand up, then this is just going to go on and on and on. It has to be stopped.
Peter’s court case has enormous implications for the international debate about climate change, and for the ongoing crisis surrounding freedom of speech.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/15/victory-climate-skeptic-scientist-peter-ridd-wins-big/
Julian Assange wins EU journalism award
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been awarded the 2019 GUE/NGL Award for journalists and whistleblowers, which is sponsored by European parliamentarians.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been given an award established in honour of an assassinated journalist.
Assange, jailed last week after being forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, was awarded the 2019 GUE/NGL Award for Journalists, Whistleblowers & Defenders of the Right to Information.
It is sponsored by European parliamentarians after being established in 2018 in honour of assassinated Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia.
The award is given to individuals "uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public" and to honour "individuals or groups who have been intimidated and/or persecuted for uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public".
Updated timeline of Christchurch terrorist attack released by police
Sourced from QRes#7936 (originally from QRes NZ bread)
STUFF - 2019/04/16 13:54
In the minutes after the terror attack began at 1.40pm, police also believed they had three shooting scenes on their hands. There were reports that shots were fired at Christchurch Hospital's emergency department, but it later transpired that did not happen.
Police learned about the Linwood attack at 1.56pm, when a member of the public flagged down a police car and told them shots had been fired in the east Christchurch area.
The new details are contained in a just-released detailed timeline of the police response to the Christchurch terror attacks.
On Wednesday, Commissioner Mike Bush said the public should have as much information about the response as possible.
ARREST 18 MINUTES AFTER ATTACK STARTED
The response began at 1.40pm on March 15. It took six minutes after the first 111 call for the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) to arrive at the scene.
An email with the alleged shooter's manifesto was received by several people, including Parliamentary Services.
Forty-four seconds later, Parliamentary Services called the police southern communications centre. That call lasted 12 minutes.
"We now know that while police was talking to Parliamentary Services the attack at Al Noor Mosque was already under way, having begun 44 seconds prior to Parliamentary Services calling," Bush said.
At 1.41pm, police received the first 111 call.
By 1.43pm, all available police units were en route to the Al Noor Mosque.
At 1.46pm, AOS members arrived near the scene. They left their vehicle, started approaching the mosque and a member stopped to help a critically injured victim.
"At this point the alleged offender is leaving the area, and his vehicle is obscured from the view of these AOS members by a bus," Bush said.
"At this time there is no vehicle description, no information an offender has left the mosque, or how many shooters there are."
First responders arrived at the mosque at 1.51pm.
It took the alleged offender six minutes to get to the Linwood mosque. He was there for three minutes, before leaving at 1.55pm.
Sixteen seconds later, at 1.56pm, a member of the public flagged down a police car to advise shots had been fired in Linwood. Around the same time, police released information that shots have been fired at the Christchurch Emergency Department. It later transpired that no shots had been fired at the hospital.
At 1.57pm, the vehicle was seen by a police car on Brougham St and a pursuit began. The vehicle was stopped at 1.59pm and the offender was apprehended, Bush said.
There were 18 minutes from the time of the first 111 call to the arrest of the offender.
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http://archive.fo/GjrvY
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/112105934/police-release-timeline-of-response-to-christchurch-terror-attacks
Anons comments on ironic situation
Sourced from QRes#7939
Australian footballing legend Israel Folau is being pilloried for his Christian beliefs.
Meanwhile Muslim clerics get dinner with the Prime Minister.
More on that Aussie DJ Piece of Crap Kidnapper
SAN FRANCISCO – Good Samaritans stopped the attempted kidnapping of a 2-year-old boy by an Australian disc jockey from a busy San Francisco street, police said Tuesday.
Police arrested Roscoe Bradley Holyoake, 34, of Perth, Australia, on Friday.
Australia media reports Holyoake is a popular disc jockey.
The toddler was holding his mother's hand while they walked in the Castro neighborhood when Holyoake snatched the boy, San Francisco police say.
Holyoake ran for about half a block with the mother and several bystanders in pursuit before the bystanders grabbed and held him until police arrived.
Holyoake appeared briefly in court Tuesday and was ordered to return Thursday to enter a plea.
His attorney Steve Olmo told media outside court that Holyoake doesn't have a criminal record and was in San Francisco on business.
Holyoake remained in San Francisco County Jail on $500,000 bail.
His Twat Acc. is https://twitter.com/DJRoski
Source
https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-good-samaritans-thwart-kidnaping-in-san-francisco
A senior Australian official says his country is “now ready to confirm” a chain of events between the high commissioner to the UK and a Trump campaign adviser that led to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to a report.
Alexander Downer, Australia’s former high commissioner to the UK who famously met George Papadopoulos at a London bar, claimed last year that the Trump aide had told him Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.
A senior Australian foreign official now says his department is ready to confirm the meeting and release redacted documents, because special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe has ended and his redacted report is about to be released, according to BuzzFeed News, which filed a Freedom of Information request.
https://nypost.com/2019/04/18/australia-ready-to-confirm-key-meeting-that-led-to-mueller-probe/
Another PapaD Tweet
"There we have it folks. Next steps should be taken, as I state in the WSJ today, subpoenae the three spies: Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer and Stefan Halper. See if they were working for the same government, and coordinating.
Release the transcripts of my meetings with them!"
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1118914435312046083
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange agrees to remain at maximum security Belmarsh jail ahead of US extradition hearing next month over the leak of 750,000 classified military documents
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to remain in custody ahead of his US extradition hearing next month, a court heard today.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6936121/Julian-Assange-agrees-remain-maximum-security-Belmarsh-jail-ahead-extradition-hearing.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top
Resignations in the region
Another resignation from PNG cabinet
https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/387346/another-resignation-from-png-cabinet
woke Aus journo…Sydney Morning Herald
COMMENT: Wretched are the offence-takers: in defence of Folau and Assange
Israel Folau and Julian Assange make unlikely bedfellows. On most counts they’re opposites: dark and fair, conservative and radical, explosive athlete and indoor intellectual, man of faith and politico-geek. Yet history will link them irretrievably for the one trait they share: their unswerving dedication to a principle they hold above all, higher than popularity, success or civic orthodoxy. Their dedication to truth-as-they-see-it.
The story arcs feel mildly biblical (or possibly Icarus-like). Both were high-flyers who knowingly courted trouble. Both met their nemesis within a single turn of the sun. On the day Folau was told of Rugby Australia’s intention to sack him for reposting his unacceptable theology, Assange was thrown to the wolves for publishing American secrets. Each now faces extreme punishment.
Each man’s sin was truth-telling in a form that our supposedly permissive culture finds unacceptable. Folau (re)published his belief that unrepentant sinners would go to hell. Assange published other people’s secrets – in particular those of the imperial US. Each seems likely to pay a shattering price.\
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https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/comment-wretched-are-the-offence-takers-in-defence-of-folau-and-assange/ar-BBW5Tvk?ocid=spartanntp
Attrocities in the world and notable names nearby
Sourced from QRes#7980
Noted here cause it looks like a notable pattern being formed here…
So something that makes me wonder about the 4-6%.
What are the odds that "these" people are at these locations when "events" take place? ASTROnomical?
JP was in NZ. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/03/2020-new-zealand-election-a-juicy-target-for-major-hack-john-podesta.html
MO was in PARIS https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6928937/Michelle-Obama-Paris-cruise-Notre-Dame-caught-fire.html
& NP was in Ireland https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0419/1043555-nancy-pelosi/
Was it to oversee an orchestration of plans to move an agenda?
Was it to bear witness to events?
Or. This is where I get nervous. Was it to Harvest something? Bodies, Power, Energy?
Can any ANONS find similar occurrences?
NZ SHOOTER VIDEO IS EXCUSE FOR EXPANDING SECRET BIG TECH CENSORSHIP EFFORTS - "BLOCKADE"
Sourced from QRes#7983
A clue - the big social platforms are using hashes of digital files to create real-time "suppression list" of images and videos (((they))) want to censor.
Memes aren't easily "read" by computers yet. BUT once fingerprinted (a "hash" is basically a digital fingerprint) - and then added to the GIFCT database (see below) and marked as "censored" (or whatever) - it's immediately "machine readable" and can be suppressed automatically across multiple big social platforms.
To circumvent this sort of censorship scheme, one needs to alter the digital file (usually in a minimal way), so that the files new hash no longer matches the old hash - but it basically looks and acts exactly the same for human consumption.
Most "hashes" I know of changes significantly with even a minor change in file content.
To change an image's hash (a meme), it could be as easy as changing a pixel in the image, resizing, re-applying compression, applying a filter, directly editing the file header in some minor way, etc…
If the "hashing" algo is more sophisticated than the ones I'm familiar with, bigger changes to the file may be required. Sophisticated hashes take time (in additional CPU cycles), so if they are hashing "everything" as it comes across the wire - they are probably using a simple algo to match for it… even if their initial algo has more time to pick the file apart in detail.
https://www.wired.com/story/platforms-centralized-censorship/
Another PapaD Tweet
@GeorgePapa19
I am certain that our Israeli friends are going to throw the Australians under the bus and expose the Australian role in spying on me and Trump. After all, Christian Cantor, from the Israeli embassy in London, encouraged me to meet wannabe Australian honeypot, Erika Thompson.
9:25 PM - 19 Apr 2019
Just be thankful we are not being run by China (YET)
Sourced from QRes#7987
Chinese City Pays $1,500 To Snitch On Christians
In a scientifically engineered society like China, Technocrats cannot tolerate any fundamental ideology that refuses to be molded into the uniform system. Thus, dissent is crushed, one way or another. ⁃ TN Editor
The Chinese government is increasing its crackdown on Christians by actually rewarding citizens that report Christians to the government.
Guangzhou has become the first city to offer up to $1,500 USD to any Chinese citizen that reports “illegal religious activities,” like underground churches or Bible studies, which was recently announced by their ethnic and religious affairs department.
According to the South China Morning Post, the city’s crackdown has come down hardest on unregistered Protestant churches. The government has also demolished Catholic churches, Buddhist temples and Muslim mosques that were not government-approved.
Not only can informants earn between 5,000 and 10,000 Chinese yuan for reporting a religious leader who is not Chinese, but they can also receive 3,000 to 5,000 yuan for reporting a foreign religious group, and 100 to 3,000 yuan for reporting local religious gatherings.
Ying Fuk-Tsang, who is the director of the Divinity School of Chung Chi College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said the crackdown is more common than people think and allows for strict social control.
“This will compress the survival space of house churches,” he told the Morning Post. “Not only will they have to deal with the official crackdown but now also the threat from their neighbors.”
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/72239/chinese-city-pays-1500-to-snitch-on.html
Sourced from QRes#7990
Michael Obama on river cruise WATCHES Notre Dame on fire while calmly drinking wine
CLOSEUP of her wine glass reflection shows her calmly drinking her wine as ND is on fire. Arrow points to ND, see smoke above it.
@4.07
https://youtu.be/ABOellxIGsI?t=260
Where Elites Travel, Death & Destruction Follow! Irish Terror, France Fire, NZ Mosque
YT Amazing Polly
U.S. intelligence says Huawei funded by Chinese state security: report
Sourced from QRes#7991
(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence has accused Huawei Technologies of being funded by Chinese state security, The Times said on Saturday, adding to the list of allegations faced by the Chinese technology company in the West.
The CIA accused Huawei of receiving funding from China’s National Security Commission, the People’s Liberation Army and a third branch of the Chinese state intelligence network, the British newspaper reported, citing a source.
Earlier this year, U.S. intelligence shared its claims with other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group, which includes Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, according to the report.
Huawei dismissed the allegations in a statement cited by the newspaper.
“Huawei does not comment on unsubstantiated allegations backed up by zero evidence from anonymous sources,” a Huawei representative told The Times.
The company, the CIA and Chinese state security agencies did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
The accusation comes at a time of trade tensions between Washington and Beijing and amid concerns in the United States that Huawei’s equipment could be used for espionage. The company has said the concerns are unfounded.
Authorities in the United States are probing Huawei for alleged sanctions violations.
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer and daughter of its founder, Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Canada in December at the request of the United States on charges of bank and wire fraud in violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran.
She denies wrongdoing and her father has previously said the arrest was “politically motivated”.
Amid such charges, top educational institutions in the West have recently severed ties with Huawei to avoid losing federal funding.
Another Chinese technology company, ZTE Corp, has also been at the center of similar controversies in the United States.
U.S. sanctions forced ZTE to stop most business between April and July last year after Commerce Department officials said it broke a pact and was caught illegally shipping U.S.-origin goods to Iran and North Korea. The sanctions were lifted after ZTE paid $1.4 billion in penalties.
Reuters reported earlier this week that the United States will push its allies at a meeting in Prague next month to adopt shared security and policy measures that will make it more difficult for Huawei to dominate 5G telecommunications networks.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-huawei-idUSKCN1RW03D
Surprise .. Surprise
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube Working on ‘Global Censorship Database’
Sourced from QRes#7995
Social media platforms and Big Tech companies have been slowly working to censor content on their platforms more efficiently.
Emma Llanso, Director of Free Expression at the Center for Democracy and Technology, wrote in an op-ed for Wired that the response to the New Zealand mass shooting in March brought the internet to a terrifying reality. Tech companies have only emphasized more “increasingly centralized and opaque censorship of the global internet.”
Llanso pointed out that Facebook’s announcement detailing plans of countering terrorism is already taking steps towards automatic censorship. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, composed of Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube, was launched in 2017 to help sites regulate themselves and remove content that could potentially be illegal. However, the forum has “a shared database of hashes of files identified by the participating companies to be “extreme and egregious” terrorist content.”
Facebook wrote in a blog post on March 18 that it was adding more content to this database. The company stressed “industry cooperation” and wrote that it helpfully “identified abusive content” on other sites.
But Facebook was not alone: Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote that he was interested in building a “safe search engine” that “blocked the accessing of such content at the point when people attempt to view and download it.” Smith emphasized “healthier online environments,” and said that “it doesn’t help when online interaction normalizes in cyberspace standards of behavior that almost all of us would consider unacceptable in the real world.”
Llanso wrote that the hash database suffered from a complete lack of transparency and accountability. “No one outside of the consortium of companies knows what is in the database,” she said. “People whose posts are removed or accounts disabled on participating sites aren’t even notified if the hash database was involved.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/04/19/facebook-microsoft-twitter-youtube-working-global
22/7/16 Wikileaks dumped emails showing Hillary robbed Bernie in the primary.
4 days later Canberra sent a message to DC.
That message gave FBI the cover it wanted to spy on Trump.
Why did Canberra send the message? Who authorised it?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/date-shift-raises-questions-on-downer-meeting-in-wine-bar/news-story/a36edca98053a4cd4ae6742c2c045ff7
(behind paywall for me, so cant even cut n paste text)
Sourced QRes#7999