Anonymous ID: f3d8b3 June 23, 2019, 5:55 a.m. No.6822352   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ethiopia's army chief, top regional officials killed in northern coup attempt

 

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s army chief of staff and the regional president of the northern state of Amhara were killed in two related attacks when a general tried to seize control of Amhara in an attempted coup, the prime minister’s office said on Sunday.

 

Amhara state president Ambachew Mekonnen and his advisor were shot dead and the state’s attorney general was wounded in Amhara’s capital of Bahir Dar on Saturday evening, according to a statement from the office of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

 

In a separate but related attack the same night, Ethiopia’s army Chief of Staff Seare Mekonnen and another retired general were shot dead in Seare’s home in Addis Ababa by his bodyguard.

 

Abiy’s office named Amhara state security head General Asamnew Tsige as responsible for the foiled coup, without giving details of his whereabouts. Asamnew was released from prison last year, having been given an amnesty for a similar coup attempt, according to media reports.

 

Abiy took office just over a year ago and embarked on unprecedented reforms in Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country and one of its fastest-growing economies.

 

But the premier’s shake-up of the military and intelligence services has earned him powerful enemies, while his government is struggling to contain growing ethnic violence, including in Amhara.

 

Moar>>> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-security/ethiopias-army-chief-top-regional-officials-killed-in-northern-coup-attempt-idUSKCN1TO0CR

Anonymous ID: f3d8b3 June 23, 2019, 6 a.m. No.6822368   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2497 >>2718 >>2720

AI Can Be Used To Detect Deepfakes - For Now

 

Over the past several years, software has emerged which can create a lifelike digital model of just about anyone. Known as "deepfakes," the technology can be used to deceive or entertain - such as Game of Thrones' Jon Snow apologizing for the absolute disaster that was season eight.

 

Early deepfakes were easy to identify; while the AI-generated dupe looked real enough, there were many tells - such as jerky mouth movements or unnatural eye movements. As time has passed, however, deepfakes are getting harder to spot.

 

Moar>>> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-22/ai-can-be-used-detect-deepfakes-now

Anonymous ID: f3d8b3 June 23, 2019, 6:06 a.m. No.6822384   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2440

The Coming Show Trial Of Julian Assange

 

On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly trimmed, slipped on heavy, dark-frame glasses at the start of the proceedings. He listened intently as Ben Brandon, the prosecutor, seated at a narrow wooden table, listed the crimes he allegedly had committed and called for his extradition to the United States to face charges that could result in a sentence of 175 years. The charges include the release of unredacted classified material that posed a “grave” threat to “human intelligence sources” and “the largest compromises of confidential information in the history of the United States.” After the prosecutor’s presentation, Assange’s attorney, Mark Summers, seated at the same table, called the charges “an outrageous and full-frontal assault on journalistic rights.”

 

Most of us who have followed the long persecution of Assange expected this moment, but it was nevertheless deeply unsettling, the opening of the final act in a Greek tragedy where the hero, cursed by fortuna, or fate, confronts the dark forces from which there is no escape.

 

The publication of classified documents is not a crime in the United States, but if Assange is extradited and convicted it will become one. Assange is not an American citizen. WikiLeaks, which he founded and publishes, is not a U.S.-based publication. The message the U.S. government is sending is clear: No matter who or where you are, if you expose the inner workings of empire you will be hunted down, kidnapped and brought to the United States to be tried as a spy. The extradition and trial of Assange will mean the end of public investigations by the press into the crimes of the ruling elites. It will cement into place a frightening corporate tyranny. Publications such as The New York Times and The Guardian, which devoted pages to the WikiLeaks revelations and later amplified and legitimized Washington’s carefully orchestrated character assassination of Assange, are no less panicked. This is the gravest assault on press freedom in my lifetime.

 

The WikiLeaks publisher was trapped for nearly seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he had been granted political asylum. He feared being sent to Sweden to face sexual offense allegations, which he has denied, and then extradited to the United States. Two months ago, although diplomatic missions are considered sovereign territory, he was physically dragged out of the embassy by British police when the new government of Ecuador revoked his asylum and the Ecuadorian citizenship that had been granted to him. (Assange retains his Australian citizenship.) He was transported to court within three hours of his arrest, given 15 minutes to prepare a defense and summarily handed a 50-week sentence for a dubious bail violation. He was sent to Belmarsh, a notorious high-security prison in southeast London.

 

On Thursday, the day before Assange appeared in court, British Home Secretary Sajid Javid advanced the process for his removal to the United States by signing an extradition request. It is a clear signal to the courts where the British government stands.

 

We know what will be done to Assange. It has been done to thousands of those we kidnapped and then detained in black sites around the world. Sadistic and scientific techniques of torture will be used in an attempt to make him a zombie. Assange, in declining health, was transferred two weeks ago to the hospital wing of the prison. Because he was medically unable to participate when the hearing was initially to be held, May 30, the proceeding was reset. Friday’s hearing, in which he appeared frail and spoke hesitantly, although lucidly, set the timetable for his extradition trial, scheduled to take place at the end of February. All totalitarian states seek to break their political prisoners to render them compliant. This process will define Assange’s existence over the next few months

 

Moar>>> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-22/coming-show-trial-julian-assange

Anonymous ID: f3d8b3 June 23, 2019, 6:11 a.m. No.6822401   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2405

>>6822397

>=NEWS=

 

>Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan says he's got 'green light' to continue removing illegal immigrants

 

>https://www.foxnews.com/us/acting-ice-director-mark-morgan-says-hes-got-green-light-to-continue-removing-illegal-immigrants

 

He has them running in circles. Kek

Anonymous ID: f3d8b3 June 23, 2019, 6:20 a.m. No.6822426   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2429 >>2435

>>6822422

=NEWS=

 

Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan says he's got 'green light' to continue removing illegal immigrants

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/acting-ice-director-mark-morgan-says-hes-got-green-light-to-continue-removing-illegal-immigrants

Anonymous ID: f3d8b3 June 23, 2019, 6:48 a.m. No.6822572   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2580

>>6822555

Part of teaching normies is to make them figure shit out for themselves instead of having everything being told to them. That's a yuge reason why we go into this mess. Believing the news man.