Epstein continuing illegal construction on Great St. James despite stop-work order, threat of fines

Multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been forging ahead with building activity on the island of Great St. James, flouting efforts by the V.I. government to force him to comply with the territory’s environmental protection laws.

Jean-Pierre Oriol, commissioner nominee for the V.I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources, said Tuesday that the department’s division of Coastal Zone Management issued Epstein a stop-work order on Dec. 21.

Despite that order, construction activity on the island has been ongoing and includes “an excessive amount of additional roadways that have been carved out on the island, there have been two jetties, fill material has been placed into the submerged lands, so there’s evidence of work going beyond what was initially applied for. The exact amount of things is still yet to be determined,” Oriol said.

Oriol said the department, which regulates building activity in environmentally sensitive areas and issues permits for planned construction, is limited in its ability to make Epstein stop violating the territory’s laws.

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https://outline.com/f2Y6fC

Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It 'In Response'?

Since Friday noon a fire exchange between besieged Palestinians in the Gaza strip and Israel escalated into heavy bombing and missile fire.

The reporting thereof in U.S. media again proves that these are unable to fairly cover on the conflict.

Jeff Bezos' blog headlines:

More than 200 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza; Israel responds, killing 3

Militants in Gaza fired more than 250 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, and Israel responded with airstrikes and artillery fire, ending weeks of relative calm and threatening efforts to forge a long-term truce.

Most readers do not read further than the headline and maybe the first paragraph. Their impression will understandably be that "militants in Gaza" started the fight and that the Zionists "responded". But that is far from the truth.

One has to read down to the fifteenth paragraph to learn that those 'facts' are probably false:

The Israeli military reported on Friday that two soldiers were lightly wounded in a shooting incident along its border with Gaza. In response, Israel struck sites belonging to the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, killing two fighters.

Also on Friday, two Palestinian protesters were killed taking part in ongoing weekly demonstrations at the border fence with Israel, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Note the sequencing. The exchange is again described as a "response" by Israel. The two murdered demonstrators, who were unarmed and posed no threat to Israel, are mentioned as an aside.

But it was their murder, by Israeli snipers, that actually started the escalating violence:

“It’s a reply to the Israeli targeting of peaceful civilians yesterday by Israeli snipers during the 58th Friday of Great March of Return,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s bureau for international relations, referring to the weekly protests staged in Gaza since last year. “Also, to the procrastination policies of the occupation toward lifting the siege on Gaza.”

A second story at Bezos' blog, filed later, follows the same scheme though its first paragraph is slightly more neutral. It is headlined:

Death toll rises as Gaza militants fire more than 400 rockets into Israel and Israel responds with airstrikes

An escalation in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza over the weekend also brought with it a growing death toll Sunday, with reports that six Palestinians, including a pregnant mother and a baby, had been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian enclave and one Israeli man killed as more than 450 rockets and projectiles were fired into southern Israel from Gaza.

In the following paragraphs there are eight statements attributed to the Israeli side and one from Palestinians. The Friday murder of two Palestinian civilians is only mentioned in paragraph sixteen.

The New York Times is equally partisan with the headline also falsely claiming that Israeli "responds":

Gaza Militants Fire 250 Rockets, and Israel Responds With Airstrikes

Palestinian militants launched about 250 rockets and mortars into southern Israel from Gaza on Saturday, and the Israeli military responded with airstrikes and tank fire against targets across the Palestinian territory, as tensions along the volatile border boiled over and a fragile cease-fire faltered again.

FULL SOURCE ARTICLE

https://russia-insider.com/en/israel-again-bombs-gaza-it-response/ri26975

Story out of Brussels, hmmm, ANONS, is there any headway on a non-DS platform being created, if such a thing can exist..as soon as I typed this I realized who am I kidding? consider this a stupid ass KEK question from non fully caffeinated old fag…

Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts for terrorism content in second-half of 2018

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Twitter is making headway in tackling online terrorism content on its platform as it suspended over 166,000 accounts in the second half of last year, about a fifth less than in the previous period, the social media company said on Thursday.

Together with Facebook and Google, Twitter is under pressure from regulators and governments worldwide to remove extremist content more rapidly or face more heavy-handed legislation.

Announcing its latest transparency report, the company said its technical tools were producing results, with 91 percent of accounts promoting terrorism content proactively suspended by its internal technology, the majority of which happened before their first tweet because the data used to set them up raised red flags.

Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts between July and December last for promoting terrorism, a 19 percent drop from the 205,156 accounts suspended in the previous six months.

“This sharp decrease is indicative of a larger trend we are now observing — year-on-year the numbers of terrorist organisations attempting to use our service is reducing,” Sinead McSweeney, Twitter’s vice president for public policy said in a statement.

“This can be attributed to a robust technical approach that we’ve enhanced over many years. We are encouraged by these metrics but will remain vigilant,” she said.

SOURCE

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-twitter-security/twitter-suspended-166153-accounts-for-terrorism-content-in-second-half-of-2018-idUKKCN1SF1LJ?

Where are All the ANONS?

Is it just me or has the implementation of the new CAPTCHA policy cost us the uniqueness of the board…and I'm not talking the Shills here. (finally figured out the best filtering methods to handle that cluster.)

I'm talking our great decoders, planefags, hell even the clock bitches…come back!

it feels like we've become nothing more than a news feed source and I'm as guilty as the rest of us there.

Q! we need an infusion….demonstrable action it truely feels like Rope-a-Dope here…

Thoughts, comments and corncernfag bitch slapping commences in 5,4,3,2…….

>>6454141

thanks faggot..I was becoming nostalgic.KEK

old concern fag heading 40 K….ek

after 3 CAPTCHA fails

>>6454117

you fags have made an old fag smile..Carry on…PAIN ANYONE?

2nd CAPTCHA fail mfer!

>>6454406

ANON I hope you feel better soon! Carry on!

Pelosi Declares Nation Is in a ‘Constitutional Crisis’

They think they gotta a winner, ANONS..

Fire up the memes!