Contributor’s links for Aug. 27, 2019

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About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

101 Replies to “Contributor’s links for Aug. 27, 2019”

  1. Revealed: Health tourists cost the NHS £150m in unpaid bills as doctors say asking for payment is ‘racist’ and hospital chases Nigerian mother for £500,000 over birth of her quadruplets three years ago (dailymail, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7396707/Health-tourists-cost-NHS-150M-unpaid-bills.html

    “Overseas patients have left the NHS with more than £150million in unpaid bills for treatment, a Daily Mail investigation reveals.

    The cash could pay for 6,000 nurses, 22,000 heart bypasses or nearly 5,500 junior doctors.

    Two hospitals in London are owed £28million each, including almost £500,000 from one patient alone.

    The revelation comes amid a new-found reluctance among frontline staff to chase payments, with doctors’ leaders saying their obligation to charge overseas patients is ‘racist’ and deters vulnerable groups from seeking help.

    But Tory MP Philip Davies said: ‘It is the National Health Service, not an international health service and it is essential these charges are made for overseas visitors.’

    Freedom of information requests by the Mail found King’s College Hospital in south London is owed £28.3million from foreign patients for treatment in the last few years. In east London, Barts Health Trust is chasing £27.8million of unpaid bills, including £467,000 from one patient, whose nationality or identity was not disclosed when questions were asked.

    Although London hospitals have the highest debts, 23 NHS organisations across England are owed at least £1million from foreign patients.

    In total, responses from 91 hospital trusts show they are owed £149.5million. But the true cost may be many millions more, with around a third of trusts – another 60 – failing to provide details.

    In addition, the figures only account for those patients flagged up as an ‘overseas visitor’ who were charged for their care.

    Many others may have had free treatment as staff presumed they were UK residents, or chose to turn a blind eye as part of a new drive from within the service.

    This is despite tough new guidance issued by the Department of Health at the end of 2017 instructing staff to properly identify overseas visitors by asking for passports and utility bills, and to hand out invoices before starting treatment.

    The new rules are strongly opposed by doctors’ leaders, including the influential British Medical Association, with some members describing them as racist. One pressure group called Docs Not Cops is actively discouraging staff from handing out bills and urges them to challenge colleagues if they are seen to check patients’ passports. Other influential bodies including the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health have warned the charges will deter vulnerable pregnant women and mothers with sick children from seeking help.

    The NHS tries to recover unpaid bills from individuals rather than the countries they are from, unless they are EU citizens.

    MPs said the £150million owed by overseas patients could be used to pay for social care, additional frontline staff or vital treatment such as cataract surgery…”

  2. Young Americans Against Socialism
    https://www.yaas.org/

    “Cuban Who Windsurfed for 90 Miles to Escape Socialism Warns America | YAAS” Young Americans Against Socialism – Published on Aug 23, 2019

    Meet Ray. Socialism was so bad in Cuba that he fled by windsurfing for 10 hours before being caught just off the coast of Florida. Now, he’s warning us of the dangers of socialism.

  4. Defending Utah – YT
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgGgDxD8rw2Sl1iLOtiTotQ/videos

    “United Nations 2019 Conference – Spreading Tyranny in Utah”
    Defending Utah Radio and TV – Published on August 20, 2019

    The United Nations is holding their 2019 Civil Society Conference Aug 26-28 2019 in Salt Lake City. Defending Utah lays out the goals of the UN, how they silence critics and work to destroy liberty around the world.

  5. Iranian Court Sentences Iranian-British Citizen to 12 Years in Jail on Espionage Charges (sputniknews, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201908271076650864-iranian-court-sentences-iranian-british-citizen-to-12-years-in-jail/

    “An Iranian court has sentenced an Iranian-British dual national, Anushe Ashuri, to 12 years in prison on espionage charges, including cooperation with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Iran judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaeili said.

    “Anushe Ashuri is yet another defendant with dual citizenship, including a British one. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of having links to Mossad and espionage, and to two years for illegal teaching activity”, Esmaeili said, as quoted by the IRIB broadcaster.

    The court also upheld a 10-year prison sentence against a British Council worker who had been jailed for espionage. Aras Amiri, 34 was arrested in March 2018 and accused of acting against national security.

    The British Council said that Amiri was not the curator of the “Iran desk” in the organisation, but was a junior position employee engaged in supporting Iranian contemporary art and organising exhibitions in the United Kingdom.

    Tensions in the Middle East have recently escalated in the wake of attacks on oil tankers between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The United States blamed the attacks on Iran and boosted its military presence in the region, while Tehran dismissed claims it had any role in the incident.”

  6. Migrants in Italy Set Park on Fire to Film the Blaze With Mobile Phones (sputniknews, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201908271076649772-migrants-in-italy-set-park-on-fire-to-film-the-blaze-with-mobile-phones/

    “The incident happened at Monza Park in the northern Italian administrative region of Lombardy. It is Europe’s largest walled park and has been open to the public since 1808.

    Three Nigerian asylum seekers intentionally started a fire at Monza Park in Italy on Sunday, according to Monza police. The law enforcement officers said in a statement that the men later admitted they set the trees ablaze to “shoot a video with the mobile phone”.

    The flames, eventually extinguished by the fire brigade, were reported by the area’s residents who noticed smoke rising from the trees in the centuries-old park situated in the centre of Monza.

    Europe has been dealing with a migrant crisis that first rocked the EU in 2015, when the EU’s refugee policy paved the way for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Northern Africa and the Middle East to enter the bloc.

    Italy has been severely affected by the crisis: it is believed that over 600,000 migrants have reached the country by boat from Africa since 2015.”

  8. Iranian president: First lift sanctions, then let’s talk (abcnews, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iranian-president-lift-sanctions-talk-65212007

    “Iran’s president back-pedaled Tuesday on possible talks with Donald Trump, saying the U.S. president must first lift sanctions imposed on Tehran, otherwise a meeting between the two would be a mere photo op.

    Hassan Rouhani’s change of heart came a day after Trump said Monday that there’s a “really good chance” the two could meet on their nuclear impasse after a surprise intervention by French President Emmanuel Macron during the G-7 summit to try to bring Washington and Tehran together after decades of conflict.

    “Without the U.S.’s withdrawal from sanctions, we will not witness any positive development,” Rouhani said in a televised speech on Tuesday, adding that Washington “holds the key” as to what happens next.

    “If someone intends to make it as just a photo op with Rouhani, that is not possible,” he said.

    Earlier on Monday, Rouhani expressed readiness to negotiate a way out of the crisis following America’s pullout from the nuclear deal…”

  9. Syrian activists: Insurgents strike back in rebel stronghold (abcnews, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/syrian-activists-insurgents-strike-back-rebel-stronghold-65212703

    “Syrian insurgents launched counterattacks Tuesday in and near areas recently taken by government forces in the country’s last remaining rebel region, after a series of setbacks they suffered in recent weeks, opposition activists said.

    The fierce fighting killed more than 50 fighters on both sides, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It also underscored that President Bashar Assad’s forces will face a long, hard fight as they try to chip away at the last rebel-held territory.

    The counterattacks began early in the morning and government forces called in Syria’s air force to repel them, the Observatory said. It said 29 Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen were killed, as well as 23 insurgents.

    The insurgents captured two villages, Salloumieh and Abu Omar, and pushed into the nearby village of Sham al-Hawa, it said…”

  10. Italy bans German rescue ship with 100 migrants (abcnews, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/italy-bans-german-rescue-ship-100-migrants-65213217

    “Italy’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has banned a German humanitarian ship carrying migrants rescued off Libya from entering Italian territorial waters.

    Decrees such as the one signed Tuesday have become routine in Salvini’s bid to prevent humanitarian rescue ships from bringing migrants to Italy.

    This one targets a vessel operated by the German group Lifeline that picked up about 100 people Monday in a rubber lifeboat some 50 kilometers (31 miles) off the Libyan coast. Lifeline has urged the German government to help identify a safe harbor.

    While Italy and Malta are the closest European ports, Italy has constructed a policy to exclude humanitarian rescue ships. Malta generally has accepted migrants rescued in its area of responsibility. The positions have led to numerous standoffs.”

  11. Sudanese activists say tribal clashes killed 37 in port city (abcnews, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/sudanese-activists-tribal-clashes-killed-37-port-city-65213002

    “Sudanese activists say last week’s clashes between two tribes in an eastern port city killed at least 37 people.

    The fighting in Port Sudan, in the Red Sea province, erupted on Thursday between the Bani Amer tribe and the displaced Nuba tribe.

    The Sudan Doctors Committee said late on Monday that along with those killed, than 200 people were wounded in the violence.

    The clashes came just days after the formation of a power-sharing government by the pro-democracy movement and the generals who overthrew the country’s longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.

    Sudan’s new joint military-civilian council on Sunday declared a state of emergency in Port Sudan, deployed troops to the area and sacked the provincial governor and its top security official.

    Activist Thouiba al-Gallad says the situation is still volatile.”

  12. Libyan self-styled army pushes to take key town near Tripoli (abcnews, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/libyan-styled-army-pushes-key-town-tripoli-65212677

    “The self-styled Libyan National Army says it has been advancing to retake a strategic town near Tripoli from militias allied with a U.N.-supported but weak government based in the country’s capital.

    The force, led by Khalifa Hifter, says it advanced to wrest control of Gharyan late on Monday, capturing areas adjunct to the town. Gharyan is located around 100 kilometers, or 62 miles from the capital.

    The Tripoli militias had pushed Hifter’s forces from Gharyan in June, cutting off their key supply route.

    Hifter’s forces launched an offensive in April to take Tripoli and the months-long fighting has killed hundreds and displaced thousands of people.

    The fighting threatens to plunge Libya into another bout of violence on the scale of the 2011 conflict that ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi.”

    • We’re on the “self-styled” side. Or should be.
      Haftar is a Sisi-like strongman. The U.N.-supported side is al-Q and MB. The Turk writ large.
      It’s a hub for weapons and fighters to destabilize Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. This won’t end any time soon. It’s too profitable: the West is selling weapons to both sides.

  14. TURKEY TURNS ON ITS OWN – CHURCHES FACE MOUNTING PRESSURE
    Authorities are deporting foreign church leaders and blocking believers’ attempts to choose their own leadership, International Christian Concern reports. It’s the latest in President Erdogan’s attempts to “snuff out” Turkey’s religious minorities. “There is strong state control over the Church”… “The more the current government feels under pressure and feels threatened, the more they try to control things and restrict freedoms, including the freedom of the Church to function.” Katy Hearth
    https://www.mnnonline.org/news/turkey-turns-on-its-own-churches-face-mounting-pressure/
    +
    TURKEY: “DEATH TO JEWS” AT SUMMER CAMP
    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14740/turkey-death-jews-summer-camp

  15. ILLEGAL FOREIGN INTERFERENCE STOPPING PEACE IN LIBYA
    Another major point is that many of the terrorist militias are not only terrorists but also criminals – criminals who once resided in Libyan prisons before 2011. This is a point rarely spoken about but a problem that left Libya full of thieves, killers, druggies, etc. This is another wonderful legacy left behind by NATO, the UN / US / UK / France / Qatar / CIA / Mossad / MI5 / Blackwater, etc. who opened the prisons in 2011 and paid the prisoners to fight against the people. Many of these criminals have become millionaires from stolen Libyan money. The activities of NATO in 2011 included war crimes, crimes against humanity, terrorism, bombing, illegal embargoes, abductions, assassinations, etc., etc. After NATO finished they turned the country over to the Muslim Brotherhood and all their terrorist minions, leaving the innocent Libyan people living a kind of hell. JoanneM
    http://libyanwarthetruth.com/illegal-foreign-interference-stopping-peace-libya

    • Why throw in Mossad?
      Because it fits with “enemy” acronyms?
      Just shows the bias of this Russian-sponsored website. Checking off all the boxes of “Western imperialism”.

      Israel + Russia + Egypt happen to be on the SAME side here. Libya’s a direct pipeline of trouble to those countries’ near-abroad.

      But jew-friendliness isn’t palatable to the target audience of this particular website. Like Moon of Alabama, too hardcore to recognize common sense coalitions. Bernard at Moon has nonetheless worthy analysis, he’s not a simple conduit of disinfo.

      Only _some_ Russian outlets are pitched to antisemites. Others are downright decent, make sensible arguments. Russia speaks with many tongues, some are lovely.

        • I missed your sanity, perspective that’s always sound but never defeatist. We have to defend our side from the Lord Haw-Haws and Tokyo Roses.

  16. A Channel 4 video from 2014, but still relevant imho. See 0:26 for the gist of the video.

    Inside the Albanian village that makes Europe’s weed

  17. Recently I told you that the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and Church World Service were both either promoting or outright offering sanctuary to illegal aliens.

    HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, another of the nine federal contractors employed by the US State Department to place refugees into your towns and cities, is focusing on hiring lawyers for the law breakers at the southern border. [For new readers, see nine contractors in this post.—ed]—Ann Corcoran

  20. Thirty years later, eerie similarities in NYT coverage of fires in the Amazon
    By Daily Caller News Foundation August 27, 2019

    Reporting from The New York Times in 1988 suggested Amazon fires were manmade, linked to global warming and might wipe out the entire rainforest — claims similar to those made today regarding August Amazon fires.

    The estimated remaining forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon was 3,723,520 square kilometers in 1988 and 3,307,949 square kilometers in 2018, according to rainforest data on Mongabay. Media outlets and celebrities herald Amazon fires as devastating and unstoppable — and reporting from The NYT shows this is not a new trend.

    Journalist Marlise Simons wrote The NYT article “Vast Amazon Fires, Man-Made, Linked To Global Warming” on Aug. 12, 1988.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/08/27/thirty-years-later-eerie-similarities-in-nyt-coverage-of-fires-in-the-amazon/

  21. (Richard: Is she serious, joking or a combination, you decide.)

    A modest proposal, for Greenland and beyond
    By J.E. Dyer August 27, 2019

    As is his way, Trump has got Greenland in the news through the rumor that he’s pondering buying the island for the United States. There’s been the usual contentious kerfuffle over this; reportedly, some harsh words ensued with Denmark (which is too bad; they’re great over in Denmark), and Greenland has said “We’re not for sale.” As I should hope none of us are.

    A number of Americans, including Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), have since pointed out that there would be important advantages to buying Greenland. They are right about certain things, such as that we definitely do not want China developing airfields and ports unhindered in such a strategically pivotal location. If China’s going to be in Greenland, the U.S. needs to be in Greenland doing the outbidding and underselling, not to mention the military force-stationing.

    We could go into all that further and talk about natural resources, Arctic claims politics, and conservation. We could point out that the USA is a poly-fer: with us, you get great Italian, awesome Mexican, the world’s finest variety of sparerib cuisine, and superb Chinese restaurants. You don’t have to make painful choices. Plus you get American football.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/08/27/a-modest-proposal-for-greenland-and-beyond/

    • No, Greenland’s serious and makes sense. I’ll write it up when I get a chance.

      OT: I’ve _missed_ you!
      But I’m back. Sewn up, healed, frisky.
      Then a series of adventures.

      My laptop’s also been repaired – in KIEV – hah!
      We went to see my Russki’s new grandson. They don’t just junk high-end electronics there.

      Or much else, they’re miserably poor. But adorable and tenacious. We couldn’t convince them to join the rest of the family that’s scattered from Israel to Boston.

      Ukrainian President Zelensky sounds amazing. (Even in translation.) They’re more optimistic than they’ve been in a long time. It’s worrisome: tough neighborhood for a reformer to stay alive. Even more difficult: remain uncorrupted.

      • Yes it does make a lot of sense as does including Ieland in the deal. China has been trying to buy control of the port and to build an airport in Greenland. We can’t let China or any other enemy take control of the North Atlantic and position forces where they can threaten the US and Canada.

        I am not sure about the threat of China taking Greenland, the tariffs have been hurting the Chinese economy and according to the reports I have seen they are in massive trouble. My thinking is that the North Korean missile launches and the fighting between Pakistan and India (more on this later) are at least partially caused by China wanting to draw attention away from the Hong Kong protests. Xi knows he is in between a rock and a hard spot, with the tariffs the Chinese economy is shaky and getting worse so he can’t openly crack down hard on the protesters without getting sanctions from various European nations. The sanctions would probably cause a major recession which would let Xi’s political enemies take him down. He also knows that if he doesn’t stop the protests without being seen to back down a lot of people on the mainland will get the idea they can protest to get something done about some of their problems. Another problem is that since the tariffs started a lot of the foreign companies that had located their factories in China have been pulling out and a lot of the liquid assets in Hong Kong have been moved way off shore since the protests started. All told their is a strong probability that if the trade talks don’t remove the tariffs and nothing is done about the Hong Kong protests the Chinese economy may come cose to collapsing in it doesn’t collapse. The last I heard Gordon Chang is saying that the Chinese economy is very weak and this was before Trump put the new tariffs on another 300 billion on Chinese imports and is talking about raising the tariff rates.

        If you haven’t been watching the India Pakistan mess yesterday or the day before Pakistan threatened to esculate the artillery exchanges to the nuclear level.

  23. Even as More Migrant Boats Land, 40,000 Un-Deported Failed Asylum Seekers Remain in UK (breitbart, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/27/even-as-more-migrant-boats-land-40000-un-deported-failed-asylum-seekers-remain-in-uk/

    “The number of failed asylum seekers who should be deported from the United Kingdom has near doubled in five years, and new refugees are arriving into the country every week with 28 individuals known to have landed in Kent overnight.

    There are now 39,932 individuals who are “subject to removal action” — otherwise known as failed asylum seekers who should be deported — in the United Kingdom, a figure which has grown from little over 20,000 in 2014.

    The large number of individuals remain in the country despite having no right to do so, and the government being theoretically obliged to encourage them to leave, or to deport them.

    The rise in those subject to deportation in the United Kingdom may be down in part to the fact that fewer individuals are now being deported. British newspaper The Times reports deportations have fallen 42 per cent in the past four years, with a 27 per cent drop of removals from 4,819 to 3,471 in the past 12 months alone.

    Overnight, a UK Border Force cutter intercepted two migrant boats in the English Channel, which carried 28 illegals between them. As is customary under British government protocols, the migrants were brought ashore in Dover and given to immigration officials who will then decide whether the individuals caught in the process of breaking into the United Kingdom will be awarded refugee status or added to the rapidly rising number of those denied status, but also not deported.

    Crossings of the English Channel by small boat is an emerging trend for illegal migration to the United Kingdom, which in the past has been characterised by people smuggling by freight crossing to Dover, and those overstaying their visas. The BBC reports over 970 people are known to have crossed the Channel this year alone…”

  24. Fearing Criminal Revenge Attacks, Swedish Police Ask for More Anonymity (breitbart, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/27/swedish-police-ask-more-anonymity-fearing-criminal-revenge-attacks/

    “Swedish police have called on the government to remove their full names and social security numbers from official identification, fearing the information could be used by criminals.

    The request comes after the police authority noted last year that many officers were reluctant to show their official police identification due to fears of retaliation as the identification cards can be photographed and given to criminals, Sweden’s Police Union magazine reports.

    The police authority says they want to change the current identification card to only include the officer’s surname and first initials and noted that those who want to complain about officer conduct would still be able to do using the identification card number.

    “It does not change so much if it says C. Nichols on my service card. My identity is still cleared. More robust measures are needed,” Ombudsman Charlotte Nichols said.

    Sweden has seen a number of attacks on police officers in recent years, including the bombing of a police station in Helsingborg in 2017 that was described as an “attack against our democracy” by Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.

    Earlier this month, another explosive device was found inside a moped at a police evidence storage warehouse in Linköping. The bomb squad accidentally blew up the entire warehouse when the controlled explosion created a much larger detonation than expected.

    Officers have also been attacked on multiple occasions while responding to calls in so-called “vulnerable areas”, often referred to as no-go zones.

    Video released in 2017 showed officers in several Stockholm no-go zones being pelted with rocks, being punched, and having other types of objects thrown at them by groups of young men.

    During the video, which comes from police body cams, local youths can be heard telling officers “don’t think you are at home here, man,” and another stating, “you are not in charge here”.”

  26. Footage from camera outside Epstein’s cell deemed unusable

    At least one camera in the hallway outside the cell where authorities say registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself earlier this month had footage that is unusable, although other, clearer footage was captured in the area, according to three people briefed on the evidence gathered earlier this month.

    It was not immediately clear why some video footage outside Epstein’s cell is too flawed for investigators to use or what is visible in the other, usable footage. The incident is being investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office, which are attempting to determine what happened and how to assess whether any policies were violated or crimes committed.

    The footage is considered critical to those inquiries, and the revelation of an unusable recording is yet another of the apparent failures inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the short-staffed Bureau of Prisons facility in downtown Manhattan that held Epstein.

    It’s unclear whether the flaw in the taping affected a limited duration of the footage or whether it was a chronic problem in the beleaguered facility.

    A Bureau of Prisons spokesman declined to comment, as did spokespeople for the FBI, the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan.

    The people who spoke about the footage requested anonymity, citing the ongoing probe.

    Epstein, a well-connected financier, had been charged in early July with sexually abusing dozens of young girls in the early 2000s and ordered held without bond. The arrest brought a sense of long-awaited justice to those who said Epstein abused them and who had earlier been dismayed by a 2008 plea deal he received to resolve similar allegations that was widely criticized as too lenient.

    That deal allowed Epstein to plead guilty to two state charges and spend just 13 months in jail, with work release privileges. The new charges could have resulted in a prison term of as much as 45 years.

    On Aug. 10, Epstein was found hanging in his cell. He was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. His death was ruled a suicide.

    Prosecutors have since moved to drop the charges against Epstein – although they continue to investigate those who might have conspired with him. A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to consider the matter and has indicated that those who say Epstein victimized them will be allowed to speak in court.

    Meanwhile, there has been intense scrutiny of the federal facility where he was held, which did not follow its protocol in the handling of Epstein in several ways, officials have said.

    Epstein should have been checked on every 30 minutes in the jail’s special housing unit, though it had been several hours since the last check when he was discovered as staff members delivered breakfast. Investigators are exploring whether logs were falsified to indicate that checks had occurred when they had not, a person familiar with the matter said.

    The two officers on duty when Epstein apparently hanged himself were both working overtime – one forced, the other voluntarily, officials have said. One did not normally work as a corrections officer, though he had in the past and was allowed to do so, officials have said.

    Epstein also was supposed to have a roommate after a July 23 incident in which he was found on the floor of his cell with marks on his neck. Authorities suspected he had attempted suicide; Epstein said he believed he had been attacked.

    He was placed on suicide watch for about a week after that – meaning he was monitored 24-7. He was placed back in the jail’s special housing unit late in the month, and, for a time, had a new roommate.

    But that person was transferred away the day before Epstein’s death and a new roommate was not assigned – despite the fact that at least eight jail officials knew Epstein was not to be left alone in a cell.

    New York’s chief medical examiner, Barbara Sampson, ruled Epstein’s cause of death a suicide Aug. 16. The ruling came five days after the medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy and classified the cause of death as pending while seeking additional information.

    The pathologist’s autopsy found that Epstein suffered fractures in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings. Among the breaks in Epstein’s neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam’s apple. Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject. But they are typical in victims of homicide by strangulation, experts told The Washington Post. Experts also caution that such a break must be viewed in the context of the findings of a full autopsy to draw a conclusion about a cause of death.

    The hyoid bone becomes more brittle and is easier to break as people age. Epstein was 66.

    Law enforcement officials have said they believe Epstein killed himself.

    Lawyers for Epstein and his family had questioned Sampson’s ruling of suicide and the thoroughness of the investigation into Epstein’s death.

    “The defense team fully intends to conduct its own independent and complete investigation into the circumstances and cause of Mr. Epstein’s death including if necessary legal action to view the pivotal videos – if they exist as they should – of the area proximate to Mr. Epstein’s cell during the time period leading to his death,” the lawyers said in an Aug. 16 statement. “We are not satisfied with the conclusions of the medical examiner.”

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Footage-from-camera-outside-Epstein-s-cell-deemed-14380186.php

    • Martin~
      I've missed you!

      Genocide like the “Palestinians” who’ve multiplied six times over.
      – – I’ve abstained from tardish news – except relevant to Israeli security – for two whole months!

  28. VICE NEWS – Taken by ISIS | One American Father’s Journey to Get His Kids Back from the Caliphate

    ( 27 min 24 )

    Thousands of foreigners answered ISIS’s call to fight in Syria and Iraq, traveling from countries around the world…including the United States. VICE News follows the journey of an American father searching for his missing children in the hands of ISIS. The search reveals that while the physical Islamic State caliphate is gone, the ideology that attracted so many still lives on.

  29. Berlin Chechen shooting: Russian assassination suspected (BBC, Aug 27, 2019)
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49483090

    “A Chechen exile shot dead in a Berlin park had fought against Russian troops and may have been assassinated by a Russian agent.

    German police arrested a 49-year-old Russian man soon after the shooting on Friday, and found the suspected pistol and bike used in the attack.

    So who was the victim, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, and why was he a target?

    Ambushed from behind
    Witnesses quoted in German media said the killer approached Khangoshvili, aged 40, from behind on a bicycle and shot him twice in the head, then sped off.

    The attack took place in the Kleiner Tiergarten park in Moabit, central Berlin, just before midday on 23 August.

    Police were quickly on the scene and arrested the suspected killer, who had been spotted dumping the bike, pistol and other evidence into the nearby River Spree.

    The gun, a Glock 26, was used with a silencer. Police divers recovered the gun and bike, the Berlin state prosecutor’s office tweeted.

    The suspect, named only as Vadim S, reportedly had a large sum of cash in his flat, searched by investigators. He has been formally accused of “treacherous killing”.

    Vadim S travelled to Berlin from Moscow via Paris a few days before the attack, and had a return ticket to Moscow, German media report.

    Suspicions fall on Russia partly because of previous high-profile attacks on dissidents abroad. The most notorious in the UK were the poisonings of Russian ex-state security officers Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 and Sergei Skripal in 2018.

    Rebel commander
    Khangoshvili fought in the second Chechen war against Russian forces in the North Caucasus, in 2001-2005.

    He came from the Kist community of ethnic Chechens and lived in the mountainous Pankisi Gorge area of Georgia.

    But he fled to Germany after surviving an assassination attempt in the Georgian capital Tbilisi in 2015.

    A Georgian lawyer contacted by the BBC, Tamta Mikeladze, accuses Georgian prosecutors of serious shortcomings in their handling of that crime.

    Eight bullets were fired at Khangoshvili, and he was wounded but managed to get to hospital.

    Ms Mikeladze’s civil society group, Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), took up Khangoshvili’s case, seeking justice for him.

    “Zelimkhan explained that the attack on him was connected to his participation in the Chechen war,” she told the BBC.

    “He was a field commander and a close ally of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov.

    “Due to his war experience, the Russian special services’ interest in him was high. Some of his comrades were also killed after the war,” Ms Mikeladze said.

    Maskhadov was killed alongside several Chechen rebel comrades in a Russian special forces raid in 2005. Maskhadov had masterminded fierce Chechen guerrilla resistance to overwhelming Russian firepower in the war.

    Kadyrov’s iron rule
    Chechnya is now run by Ramzan Kadyrov, a former rebel who switched sides and is now fiercely loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    Mr Kadyrov has a reputation for ruthlessness and is blacklisted by Western nations. Several Chechen opposition activists have been assassinated abroad in recent years.

    The Georgian language service of Radio Free Europe says Khangoshvili acted as a mediator to defuse a conflict in the Lopota Gorge in August 2012. Georgian security forces went there to end a hostage-taking by armed Chechens.

    After 2005 a low-level, anti-Kadyrov insurgency continued in the North Caucasus, with Islamist militants operating from villages near Russian-controlled Chechnya and Dagestan.

    Several Chechens from the Pankisi Gorge – Khangoshvili’s home territory – joined the Islamic State (IS) jihad in the Middle East.

    Khangoshvili feared for his life in Georgia and used various aliases. He also used aliases in Germany, where he applied for asylum, but was not granted it.

    German media report that he was on a police watch list for a while, as a suspected Islamist, but was later dropped from it for lack of evidence.

    Some reports speculate that his death could have been a criminal settling of scores, rather than a political assassination. He was suspected of links with the criminal underworld.

    In his Kist community back in Georgia, Ms Mikeladze says, there is deep sorrow over his death. He was “a very influential leader” there.

    His wife and four children remain in Berlin.

    Many Chechens moved to Germany and other EU countries because of the long-running conflict in Chechnya. But many have found it difficult to get asylum.”

  31. NY Times’ 1619 Project Puts Slavery at the Center of America’s Founding
    Rewriting history to pave the road to 1984.
    August 27, 2019
    Bruce Thornton

    Last week the New York Times embarrassed itself twice. First, a transcript was leaked of editor Dean Baquet’s exhortation to reporters that the Russian-collusion fiction having been exploded, they now needed to focus on the endemic “racism” and “white supremacism” of Trump and his supporters in order to defeat the president. Next, as the “theory” behind this partisan journalistic “praxis,” the self-proclaimed “paper of record” announced the “1619 Project,” a series of articles and essays showing “that nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.”

    Both incidents definitively reveal that the cultural bacilli that erupted during the Sixties have at last destroyed the minds of some of our most prestigious and powerful institutions. More important, such a degradation of history is one of the preconditions for the plague of tyranny.

    The first point to make is that neither the blatant bias of the Times––nor its aim “to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 [the year the first black slaves came to America] as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story”––is new. Like most of progressivism, both are manifestations of the zombie ideology that for nearly a century has been attacking our political and social order.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274740/ny-times-1619-project-puts-slavery-center-americas-bruce-thornton

  32. Germany: Muslim Migrants Start Brawl Over Short Skirt
    Increasingly in the West, one must do as the Muslims do — or else.
    August 27, 2019
    Robert Spencer

    The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to suit Islamic sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to suit Islamic sensibilities. This was proven true again last Thursday in Duisberg, Germany, where a Muslim migrant thought a German woman’s skirt was too short, and started a brawl.

    According to the German publication Waz, “Different views on the length of a skirt worn by a woman led to a fight between two groups in Duisburg. The police report a dispute over cultural differences, which began verbally and ended in a fistfight, in which a participant dislocated his shoulder.”

    No establishment media source will ever dare to say what was really behind this kind of incident: not simply “cultural differences,” but religious beliefs.

    A police spokeswoman, Jacqueline Grahl, explained: “The revealing style of clothing of a 50-year-old met with incomprehension in a 20-year-old.” Waz added: “According to information from our editorial team, the man who insulted the unknown woman and asked her why she had to present her legs in such a way is a Duisburger with Turkish roots. He was together with three other Duisburgers with Turkish roots in the Rheinpark.”

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274743/germany-muslim-migrants-start-brawl-over-short-robert-spencer

  35. Bernie Sanders Proposes Taxing Ads to Fund Media
    August 26, 2019
    Daniel Greenfield

    We’re in the midst of a debate about whether the media deserves special privileges.

    Senator Bernie Sanders not only believes that it does, but wants to tax ads to fund the media.

    In a Columbia Journalism Review pitch, the socialist politician proposes,”we should consider taxing targeted ads and using the revenue to fund nonprofit civic-minded media.”

    By civic-minded media, he means leftists.

    Why should businesses be taxed to subsidize Bernie’s propaganda. And he’s fairly explicit about it being his propaganda.

    “After all, TV networks that rely on $4.5 billion a year of pharmaceutical ads may be thrilled to sugarcoat our current dysfunctional health care system—but they will never provide a consistently fair hearing for something like Medicare for All,” Sanders writes.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274752/bernie-sanders-proposes-taxing-ads-fund-media-daniel-greenfield

  37. DAILY MAIL –Finsbury Park mosque terrorist ‘batters Muslim paedophile in jail attack while shouting ‘f****** Allahu Akbar’ ‘

    Darren Osbourne, 48, ‘beat Muslim convicted child rapist in prison in Wakefield’

    Osbourne ploughed into worshippers near a mosque, killing one man and injuring 12, near Finsbury Park in June 2017

    He was radicalised after scouring the internet for anti-Muslim content after learning about Rochdale grooming gangs

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    Mosque murderer Darren Osborne beat a Muslim paedophile inmate while shouting ‘F***ing Alluhu akbar’, it was reported.

    The radicalised Islamophobe, whose appalling van attack at the Finsbury Park mosque left one man dead and twelve people injured, allegedly beat child rapist Tariq Islam unconscious.

    A source told The Sun: ‘Osborne was raging. If the prison officers hadn’t got to him when they did Islam could have been killed.

    ‘He shouted the place down, yelling “F***ing Allahu akbar!”

    ‘There was blood everywhere.’

    Unemployed father of four Osborne rammed his van into a group of Muslim worshippers in London in July 2017.

    He was caught on a policeman’s body-camera ranting about the twin towers attack and Muslims as he was arrested by police.

    Osborne had obsessively scoured the internet looking for far-right material after watching a BBC drama about Asian grooming gangs in Rochdale.

    Just a few weeks after consuming anti-Muslim material online, he drove to London intent on killing as many people as possible at the pro-Palestinian Al Quds march.

    When he could not get his hired box van near the march route, he desperately drove around the capital looking for a mosque or Islamic centre to target.

    His victim, Islam, 35, from Leeds, was jailed for 13 years after his ten-strong gang groomed a Muslim girl of 12 and plied her with alcohol before raping her.

    He and Osborne, 49, are both serving sentences at Wakefield Prison, which houses some of the UK’s most dangerous criminals.

    Islam needed hospital treatment after the attack.

    Prison insiders say Osborne is desperate to get a transfer and may have staged the attack to engineer a move.

    Sources said the men are now on different prison wings.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7397141/Finsbury-Park-mosque-terrorist-batters-Muslim-paedophile-jail-attack.html

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    BBC – Finsbury Park attacker Darren Osborne allegedly involved in prison attack

    Police are probing an assault allegedly involving Finsbury Park attacker Darren Osborne and a fellow prisoner.

    It is understood convicted paedophile Tariq Islam required hospital treatment following an incident at Wakefield high-security jail in July.

    Osborne was jailed for life after he drove a van into a crowd near Finsbury Park Mosque in London in June 2017, killing one man.

    The Prison Service confirmed a prisoner was taken to hospital after an assault.

    Allegations that the assault involved Osborne and Islam, leading to Islam needing hospital treatment, were reported in The Sun.

    Osborne, from the Pentwyn area of Cardiff, was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 43 years in February 2018.

    He was found guilty of the terrorism-related murder of 51-year-old Makram Ali and deliberately ploughing a hired van into a crowd of people.

    Islam, from Leeds, was jailed for 13 years in 2015 for two counts of rape involving a vulnerable 13-year-old girl.

    The incident happened on 24 July and both prisoners have since been moved to different wings in the Category A prison.

    “A prisoner from HMP Wakefield required hospital treatment after being assaulted on Wednesday, 24 July,” said a Prison Service spokeswoman.

    “The incident was referred to the police who are now investigating.”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49480229

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    THE SUN – JAIL ATTACK Mosque murderer Darren Osborne battered Muslim paedophile in prison while yelling: ‘F****** Allahu Akbar’

    MOSQUE murderer Darren Osborne battered a Muslim paedophile in prison while yelling: “F****** Allahu akbar”.

    Far-right terrorist Osborne, jailed for life after he killed a man and injured 12 more by driving a van into a crowd at a mosque, beat child rapist Tariq Islam unconscious.

    A source said: “Osborne was raging. If the prison officers hadn’t got to him when they did Islam could have been killed.

    “He shouted the place down, yelling ‘F***ing Allahu akbar!’ There was blood everywhere.”

    Islam needed hospital treatment after the attack.

    Racist Osborne was jailed after a trial was told he had been radicalised after watching a TV drama about Asian grooming gangs.

    Islam and dad-of-four Osborne, 49, are both serving sentences at Wakefield Prison, which houses some of the UK’s most dangerous criminals.

    The jail in West Yorks has even been dubbed “Monster Mansion” because of its roll call of the country’s highest profile lags.

    The grim cast list includes Sarah Payne’s paedophile murderer, Roy Whiting.

    FINSBURY PARK ATTACK

    Osborne was jailed after his trial heard how he boasted he wanted to “cause as much damage as possible” in the mosque attack in 2017.

    One person, 51-year-old Makram Ali, was killed while another nine people were injured when Osborne drove a van into worshippers as they left late-night Ramadan prayers in Finsbury Park, North London.

    Osborne had denied both charges, trying to blame a man called Dave.

    But prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said the attack had come from a “warped hatred of all Muslims, which had its roots in material he had watched on television and online”.

    And sentencing the then 48-year-old, Justice Cheema-Grubb told Osborne he was guilty of a “terrorist murder”.

    Islam, 35, of Leeds, was jailed for 13 years after his ten-strong gang groomed a Muslim girl of 12 and plied her with alcohol before raping her.

    He was convicted of two rapes as Judge Geoffrey Marson QC told the men they had reduced their victim to a state of “misery and degradation”.

    And the judge condemned the gang, who had not “uttered a single word or sentiment of remorse”.

    It is not yet clear how Osborne came into contact with Islam. Paedophiles and rapists are often segregated from other cons in so-called “vulnerable persons units”.

    Prison insiders say Osborne is desperate to get a transfer and may have staged the attack to engineer a move.

    But last night sources said the pair had now been placed on separate wings of the jail – foiling Osborne’s move bid.

    A Prison Service spokeswoman said: “A prisoner from HMP Wakefield required hospital treatment after being assaulted on Wednesday July 24.

    “The incident was referred to the police who are now investigating.”

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9801095/mosque-murderer-darren-osborne-beats-paedo-prison/

  40. The Epoch Times’ Stephen Gregory Responds to NBC & MSNBC’s Gross Misrepresentations of Our Media

    • Since the protests go so large and the potential of an invasion from the mainland has increased a lot of the banks and investment brokers have been shifting their money to locations that will make it harder for the Chicoms to lay their hands on the molney. This move makes sense on several levels since the Chinese economy is now in a recession and may well go into a depression. Any even semi loose capital is an attractive target for the Chicoms to seize and try to prop up their economy.

      • Actually, it’s good timing for India. Clean up Kashmir while China’s preoccupied, and islamofauxbic PTrump is wooing India. Couldn’t do it with an MB Prez in the White House.

        China and India are huge trading partners. Right now that’s way more important than shelling out for wretched Pakistan. Russia or China would likely veto any UN resolution against India.

        I love the news black-out that’s letting the world look the other way. Too bad Gaza can’t be knocked off without poisonous, saturation coverage.

        • It is good timing for India and as I said above the Chinese economy is in a recession, if the tariffs are raised, or sanctions are placed on China for cracking down on the protesters. Or the mainlanders decide to protest for more freedom of even more good and money the Chinese Government is in real big trouble.

          It would be nice if you could black out the news coverage of Gaza for a few months.

          • PM Modi started it, for sure. I wish him luck. A solid Hindu, he’s not overly dainty dealing with tards. They hate him.

            0 denied him a visa before he became Prime Minister. He’s under no delusions about how he’ll fare if the Demonrats take over the White House.

  45. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she’s open to dialogue with protesters
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