Deep State's Google to appoint staff of 10,000 to weed out 'extremist' content on YouTube

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08 December 2017

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Previous edition: Japan poised to flood Pacific with one million tons of radioactive water from Fukushima [which Google relegated to the sp*m bin.] For those who missed this story: Japan is poised to flood the Pacific Ocean with one million tons of radioactive water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear power plant --The amount of radioactive water at Fukushima is still growing, by 150 tons a day. | 26 Nov 2017 | The Japanese government is being urged by experts to gradually release radioactive water in to the Pacific Ocean more than six years after a tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The water is stored on site in around 900 large and densely packed tanks and could spill should another major disaster strike. The government has been urged to release the water into the ocean as all the radioactive elements of the water except tritium have [*allegedly*] been removed through treatment. But if the tank breaks, the contents may not be able to be controlled.

Deep State's Google to appoint staff of 10,000 to weed out 'extremist' content on YouTube | 04 Dec 2017 | Google plans to increase to 10,000 the number of its staffers tasked with tracking down 'extremist' content on YouTube. "We will continue the growth of our teams, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told Britain's Daily Telegraph in an interview. Wojcicki said that "bad actors" had used the video-sharing site to "mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm" actually educate others.

US, South Korea launch large-scale air drills amid spiraling nuclear tension | 04 Dec 2017 | Unprecedented joint air force drills between the US and South Korea, featuring hundreds of warplanes, have kicked off despite dire warnings from Pyongyang and Moscow's calls to avoid new provocations after the recent launch of North Korea's new ICBM. The Vigilant Ace 18 drills, which Seoul claims are of a purely "defensive nature," will see hundreds of US and South Korea's aircraft honing their skills by attacking mock North Korean nuclear and missile objects in different war time scenarios, Yonhap reported, citing South Korea's defense ministry. They will for the first time feature six F-22 Raptor stealth jets, that arrived to South Korea specifically for the war games along with six F-35As stealth jets.

Pentagon tried to block independent report on child sex among Afghan forces, Senate office says | 26 Nov 2017 | The Pentagon tried to block an independent assessment of child sex abuse crimes committed by [US-funded] Afghan soldiers and police, instead insisting on the creation of its own report offering a far less authoritative review of human rights violations perpetrated by U.S. allies, according to an aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). Although the report released Nov. 16 by the Defense Department Inspector General's office (DODIG) reached the grim conclusion that, for years, U.S. personnel have been inadequately trained to report such crimes, a parallel investigation by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) is thought to contain a much more detailed accounting of the problem's severity. But the results of SIGAR's unreleased inquiry, which was requested by 93 members of Congress in 2015, remains classified at the Pentagon's direction, raising questions about the military's transparency and the extent to which it is complying with laws meant to curb such abuse.

Trump calls on Saudis to lift Yemen blockade 'immediately' | 06 Dec 2017 | President Trump on Wednesday said he's directed his administration to push Saudi Arabia to completely lift its blockade on war-torn Yemen. "I have directed officials in my administration to call the leadership of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to request that they completely allow food, fuel, water and medicine to reach the Yemeni people who desperately need it," Trump said in a brief statement Wednesday. "This must be done for humanitarian reasons immediately." 

Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, forge ahead with moving US Embassy | 05 Dec 2017 | President Trump on Wednesday will order the State Department to begin moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, senior administration officials said, a move that fulfills a campaign promise made to religious conservatives but one that could inflame tensions across the Middle East. The U.S. would be the first country to move its embassy to Jerusalem, which is claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians. Other countries who have diplomatic relations with Israel keep their embassies in Tel Aviv. But the embassy move would not be immediate and could take at least three or four years. 

Syrian air defense intercepts 3 Israeli missiles targeting military site near Damascus - state media | 05 Dec 2017 | Israel has reportedly launched air strikes at a Syrian military research facility in the Damascus countryside, local media report, claiming that the country's air defense systems engaged and destroyed three out of at least six incoming missiles. At 11:30pm Monday, Syrian "air defenses confronted an Israeli missile attack on one of our sites in the Damascus suburbs and three of the targets were downed," SANA reported, citing a military source...While details of the alleged strike remain scarce, a government source told Sputnik that "Syria's air defense destroyed three of the six missiles that Israel launched at the Research Center in the suburbs of Damascus."

US-led coalition acknowledges killing 800+ civilians in Iraq and Syria airstrikes | 30 Nov 2017 | At least 800 civilians have been killed by US-led coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since 2014, a coalition report says. It adds that the group holds itself accountable for "unintentional injury or death to civilians." "To date, based on information available, [the coalition] assesses at least 801 civilians have been unintentionally killed by Coalition strikes since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve [in 2014]," Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) said in statement on Thursday.

'Yes, I will': Vladimir Putin announces run for re-election in 2018 | 06 Dec 2017 | Vladimir Putin has confirmed that he will seek another term in office in next year’s presidential election. "Yes, I will run as a candidate for the Russian presidency," Putin said. He was meeting with workers at the country's historic manufacturer, GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod), in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday. "Our country is its people, people like you," the Russian leader said, addressing workers and veterans of the plant.

Former NSA spy believes he contracted Parkinson's from a microwave attack | 06 Dec 2017 | A former US National Security Agency officer believes that a weaponized microwave attack caused the Parkinson's disease that is now slowly killing him 10 years later. Mike Beck was diagnosed with the degenerative neurological disorder in 2006, when he was only 46. Little research has been conducted on the relationship between Parkinson's and forms of radiation like microwaves, but experts say that they can't be ruled out as contributing factors.

US citizens claim to have had symptoms similar to diplomats attacked in Cuba | 06 Oct 2017 | The State Department says it has received "a handful of reports" from American citizens who say they've experienced symptoms similar to those in attacks of US government workers in Havana. But the US isn't vouching for those reports. [Of course not.] The United States last week issued a travel warning that urges American travelers to stay away from Cuba. A State Department official says in the days following the travel warning, some citizens reported having similar symptoms after traveling to Cuba. [Sounds like the dry run of a new Pentagon weapon, just like the microwave experiments aka 'California wildfires.' Remember the 'wildfires' that destroyed entire homes in minutes but left the leaves on the trees and plastic swing-sets untouched?]

Plot to blow up Theresa May is foiled: Suicide bombers armed with knives planned to murder the Prime Minister in Downing Street, claims MI5 | 06 Dec 2017 | The security services believe they have stopped an Islamist suicide bomb plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. Two men are suspected of conspiring to attack Downing Street armed with an improvised bomb, suicide vest and knives. Investigators suspect the pair wanted to detonate a bomb disguised as a bag. They would then attempt to kill Theresa May armed with a suicide vest, pepper spray and knife in the chaotic aftermath. Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, and Mohammed Aqib Imran, 21, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday charged with planning terror attacks.

'Orwellian nightmare': German Interior Minister drafts law to spy on all digital devices - report | 03 Dec 2017 | Germany's Interior Minister wants secret backdoor access to computers, phones and even Volkswagens, according to a media report. Critics have slammed his plan as an "Orwellian nightmare." Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere plans to argue "the legal duty for third parties to allow for secret surveillance" during an interior ministry conference in Leipzig next week. The proposal would "dramatically extend" the state's powers to spy on its citizens, according to the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) report. If signed into law, de Maiziere's proposal would allow German security services to spy on any device connected to the internet.

Russian Olympic Committee banned from 2018 Winter Games, athletes allowed to compete as neutrals | 05 Dec 2017 | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has suspended the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) from 2018 Olympics, ruling that "clean" Russian athletes can only compete under a neutral flag in South Korea in February. The decision came after 14-person panel was presented with the results of two separate investigations of alleged Russian d-ping - one concerning individual athletes, the other institutional violations. The executive board ruled that no officials from Russia's sport ministry will be allowed accreditation for the Winter Games in PyeongChang.

Barack Obama appears to compare Trump presidency to the rise of Hitler and says US democracy could 'fall apart very quickly' | 07 Dec 2017 | Barack Obama [Deep State emissary and best bud of unindicted 9/11 co-conspirator George W. Bush] appeared to compare Donald Trump's presidency to Hitler's rise to power during a speech in Chicago on Tuesday. The former president was speaking at an event thrown by the Economic Club of Chicago when he made the remarks. Without mentioning the current president, Obama told the gathered audience of 1,800: 'We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly. That's what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to dominate.' Some Trump fans said Obama's comments were 'un-American' and 'disgusting'.

Puritanical 'MeToo' lunacy claims another victim: Rep. Franks resigning after discussing surrogacy with female staff | 07 Dec 2017 | Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) revealed on Thursday that he is resigning because he discussed the option of surrogacy with female staffers. [!] The House Ethics Committee announced that it is opening an investigation into his actions. "Due to my familiarity and experience with the process of surrogacy, I clearly became insensitive as to how the discussion of such an intensely personal topic might affect others," Franks said in a statement. He said that he's choosing to resign because "in the midst of this current cultural and media climate [of insanity], I am deeply convinced I would be unable to complete a fair House Ethics investigation." Franks emphasized Thursday that he did not engage in physical sexual misconduct toward his aides.

Arizona GOP Rep. Trent Franks to resign following sexual harassment claim | 07 Dec 2017 | Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks announced in a statement Thursday night he will resign from Congress at the end of January, after the House Ethics Committee said it would investigate allegations against him of sexual harassment. The House Ethics Committee announced earlier Thursday that it will investigate Franks to determine if he engaged in "conduct that constitutes sexual harassment and/or retaliation for opposing sexual harassment." In his statement, Franks acknowledged he made staffers "uncomfortable" and that he discussed fertility issues and surrogacy with two female staffers, but denied having ever "physically intimidated, coerced, or had, or attempted to have, any sexual contact with any member of my congressional staff."

Sen. Al Franken to resign from Senate amid sexual harassment allegations | 07 Dec 2017 | Minnesota Sen. Al Franken will resign from the United States Senate he said on Thursday, an announcement he made a day after a number of his Democratic colleagues called for him to step down amid mounting allegations that he sexually harassed women. "Today I am announcing that in the coming weeks, I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate," said Franken, adding, "It's become clear that I can't both pursue the ethics committee process and at the same time remain an effective senator for [the people of Minnesota]." Though he apologized, acknowledged some wrongdoing and called for an ethics investigation to be initiated, Franken resisted early calls for his resignation, even after additional accusations of misconduct surfaced.

A Democratic Chorus Rises in the Senate: 'Franken Should Resign' | 06 Dec 2017 | Support for Al Franken all but collapsed on Wednesday among his Democratic colleagues in the Senate, with dozens calling for him to resign after a sixth woman said he had made an improper advance on her. "Senator Franken should resign," Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, said Wednesday evening, the latest in an avalanche of statements that began with a half-dozen Democratic women and then snowballed throughout the day.

Rep. John Conyers, most senior member of House, resigns amid accusations of sexual harassment| 05 Dec 2017 | Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives, resigned Tuesday after his support among fellow Democrats collapsed amid accusations of sexual harassment by several female employees. Conyers endorsed his son, John Conyers III, in a radio interview...Conyers's replacement will be chosen in a special election. Conyers has continued to deny any wrongdoing, although on Nov. 26, he agreed to step down as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee in what served as the first acknowledgment of his vulnerability.

US House ethics panel clears Nunes in Russiagate classified leak probe | 08 Dec 2017 | The US House Ethics Committee has cleared Representative Devin Nunes (R-California) on a complaint that he leaked classified information. The surprise decision paves the way for the firebrand lawmaker to reassume chairing a House intelligence panel. The ethics committee said Thursday in a brief statement that it determined the Republican congressman did not disclose classified information in March, when he made asurprise announcement about the US government picking up information about President Donald Trump's transition team during a surveillance sweep. Nunes was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee at the time, and was leading the probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Rep. Jordan Grills FBI Director: Did Agent Who Sent Anti-Trump Texts Bring Dossier to FISA Court?| 07 Dec 2017 | Rep. Jim Jordan grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray this morning on the suspected actions of an FBI agent found to have sent anti-Trump text messages to his mistress. At the House hearing, Jordan (R-Ohio) zeroed in on Peter Strzok's work on the Hillary Clinton email investigation and asked whether Strzok had anything to do with the anti-Trump dossier. Strzok was moved off Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation over the summer after the text messages were discovered. "If you kicked everybody off of Mueller's team who was anti-Trump, I don't think there'd be anybody left," said Jordan, alleging there is "more" behind Strzok's departure from Mueller's team.

Another Mueller deputy caught sending anti-Trump message: Top prosecutor told Obama holdover who refused to defend travel ban that 'I am so proud' | 05 Dec 2017 | A top prosecutor working with special counsel Robert Mueller praised former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates at a moment in late January when she was at loggerheads with newly minted president Donald Trump. Andrew Weissman emailed Yates ten days into the Trump administration after she refused to enforce or defend an executive order banning incoming travelers to the U.S. from seven terror-prone countries. 'I am so proud. And in awe. Thank you so much. All my deepest respects,' Weissman wrote to her. The message, sent January 30 to Yates's government email account, was one of hundreds of pages of documents newly obtained by Judicial Watch, a right-leaning advocacy group.

Revealed: FBI agent removed from Mueller probe over anti-Trump texts changed Comey's rebuke of Hillary's email use from 'grossly negligent' to 'extremely careless' | 04 Dec 2017 | The FBI agent who was dismissed from the Mueller probe for anti-Trump messages was responsible for changing the description that James Comey read when reprimanding Hillary Clinton for using her private email server. CNN reported Monday that Peter Strzok, one of the top officials involved in the investigation of Clinton's private email server, changed Comey's remarks from saying Clinton's behavior was 'grossly negligent' to 'extremely careless.' This distinction is important because there are criminal penalties for individuals who mishandle classified material with 'gross negligence,' the network pointed out.

Top FBI agent who helped lead Clinton email investigation is fired from the Mueller probe after being caught sending anti-Trump text messages --The deputy head of counterintelligence of the FBI was also accused of sending compromising texts during the Clinton email probe | 02 Dec 2017 | FBI agent Peter Strzok was removed from working within special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe after he was caught sending compromising texts, a new report revealed Saturday. The deputy head of counterintelligence, who also took lead in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, sent 'anti-Trump' messages to a colleague, three related parties told The New York Times in a statement. Regulations put in place by the FBI permit individuals to 'privately and publicly' speak on 'political subjects and candidates,' while they are forbidden from working for political campaigns.

/POL/- Q Clearance Anon - Is it #happening? | 03 Nov 2017 | (Video)

ABC News suspends Brian Ross over 'serious error' in Trump-Flynn report | 02 Dec 2017 | ABC News announced Saturday that Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross would be suspended for four weeks without pay over a botched "exclusive" about former national security adviser Michael Flynn. During a live "special report" Friday morning, Ross reported that Flynn would testify that Donald Trump had ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign policy while he was still a candidate. The report raised the specter of Trump's impeachment and sent the stock market plummeting. Later in the day, ABC issued a "clarification" to Ross's report, saying that Trump's alleged directive came after he'd been elected president.

Why Flynn's plea is a dead end for 'Russiagate' conspiracy | 01 Dec 2017 | President Donald Trump's short-lived national security adviser, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Most US media jumped on the plea as proof of Trump's collusion with Russia. Actual documents, however, tell a different story. A court document signed by special counsel Robert Mueller, dated Thursday, specifies two instances of Flynn telling FBI investigators things that were not true. They relate to two conversations he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, in December 2016. In the Statement of Offense [!?!] signed by Flynn at his court appearance on Friday, he admitted to acting on instructions from a senior "Presidential Transition Team" (PTT) official, prompting breathless speculation if that was Trump himself, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, or someone else altogether. The one question nobody seems to be asking is, "So what?" [Oh, believe me, I'm asking it!]

Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI in Mueller['s deep-state] probe | 01 Dec 2017 | Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to a charge of making false statements to the FBI about his communications with Russia. A two-page charging document filed Thursday lists two false statements Flynn made about his interactions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in late December 2016. It says Flynn falsely claimed that he had not asked Kislyak on Dec. 29 "to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the U.S. had imposed against Russia," and that he didn't recall Kislyak telling him Russia had decided to moderate its response as a result of his request.

Authorities file new charges against undocumented immigrant acquitted in Steinle case - report | 05 Dec 2017 | Federal officials have filed new charges against the undocumented immigrant recently acquitted in the murder of Katie Steinle, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Officials filed new immigration and gun charges against Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, just days after he was acquitted of murder and manslaughter in the Steinle case. Zarate had been charged in Steinle's killing after she was fatally wounded in 2015 while walking on the San Francisco waterfront. Zarate is an undocumented immigrant and was deported five times ahead of the 2015 shooting.

DOJ files arrest warrant for undocumented immigrant acquitted in Kate Steinle case | 02 Dec 2017 | The Department of Justice unsealed an arrest warrant Friday for Jose Inez Garcia Zarate on Friday, the undocumented immigrant acquitted this week in Kate Steinle's murder trial. Zarate was found not guilty of murdering Steinle on a pier in San Francisco in July 2015. Steinle was walking with her father and a family friend when she was shot, collapsing into her father's arms. Zarate had been released from a San Francisco jail about three months before the shooting, despite a request by federal immigration authorities to detain him for deportation.

House passes bill requiring states recognize concealed gun permits | 06 Dec 2017 | The US House of Representatives passed the Conceal Carry Reciprocity bill on Wednesday, bringing America one step closer to effectively allowing all Americans to secretly carry firearms in all 50 states. The bill, which the National Rifle Association has called its "highest legislative priority in Congress," would amend the federal criminal code to allow the concealed transport of handguns across state lines, so long as both states allow concealed carry. This federal law would supersede any state statutes on concealed firearms.

Supreme Court permits full enforcement of Trump travel ban | 04 Dec 2017 | Handing the White House a huge judicial victory, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of President Trump’s travel ban affecting residents of six majority-Muslim countries. The justices said the policy can take full effect despite multiple legal challenges against it that haven’t yet made their way through the judicial system. The ban applies to people from Syria, Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. Lower courts had said people from those countries with a "bona fide" relationship with someone in the United States could not be prevented from entry.

Add-ons in the Republican tax bill | 02 Dec 2017 | The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in the Senate in the early hours of Saturday now has to be combined with the House version passed in November to make a final law... Drilling the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge: A very non-tax related addition to the Senate bill was squeezed in that would open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. This is a[n insane] goal of Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, who may have promised her vote for the addition of the provision.Private jet tax break: Possibly the most unappetizing aspect of the bill is the tax break for private jet owners. The provision would exempt aircraft owners from taxes on the "maintenance and support of the aircraft owner's aircraft or flights on the aircraft owner's aircraft." Bad news for Gulf Airlines Foreign airlines...will face corporate tax for landing in US airspace [Good!], ending a tax exemption for the airlines.

Dow closes well above 24,000 in yet another milestone | 30 Nov 2017 | Stocks powered to new highs on Wall Street today, giving the Dow Jones industrials index its biggest gain since March and vaulting the blue-chip benchmark to finish above 24,000 points for the first time. The Dow Jones industrials gained 331 points, or 1.4 percent, to close at 24,272. Other market indicators also reached milestones on Thursday. The broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index, which is widely followed by professional investors, had its biggest monthly gain since February.

California fires: San Diego County's Lilac fire explodes to 4,100 acres | 07 Dec 2017 | A wind-fanned fire growing at a "dangerous" rate in North County has charred 4,100 acres, destroyed dozens of structures and is threatening 5,000 more, fire officials said Thursday. At least three people were burned in the blaze, which roared through Bonsall, a rural community of ranches and agricultural lands, toward Oceanside. At one point, a line of a dozen palm trees ignited. Homes were quickly reduced to piles of ash and teams of horses fled from the flames. "This fire could make it all the way through Oceanside to the coast," said Cal Fire Division Chief Nick Schuler.

'Out-of-control' Southern California fire explodes as growing blazes force 27,000 to flee | 05 Dec 2017 | Ferocious fires tore through Southern California on Tuesday, burning massive stretches of land in a matter of hours and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. As firefighters in Ventura County grappled with an explosive blaze northwest of downtown Los Angeles, others across the region confronted additional fires that burned during the day and forced more evacuations. Authorities issued ominous warnings of more dangers to come during a "multiday event" across the area, as weather forecasters said the region faces "extreme fire danger" through at least Thursday due to intense Santa Ana winds and low humidity that could cause the fires to grow rapidly.

Pharma-terrorism: Dengue vaccine program halted in Philippines after study shows it could worsen outbreak | 03 Dec 2017 | Hundreds of thousands of children in the Philippines have been given a dengue vaccine which may worsen the outbreak, officials warned, as they halted the program late last week. The vaccine, Dengvaxia, has been administered to more than 730,000 public school children aged 9 and older in three endemic regions of the Philippines. France-based manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur said that an analysis of the drug based on six years of clinical data showed that in the longer term, more cases of severe dengue could occur in those who have been vaccinated with the drug among people who have not previously been infected with dengue.

  

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