Re: #3 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[The Original Mind]

ot:

Internet memes will be banned under new EU copyright law, warn campaigners

[img]https://news.sky.com/story/memes-will-be-banned-under-new-eu-copyright-law-warn-campaigners-11398577

You know, we (rightfully) mock the US government, but the EU's laws are getting SERIOUSLY scary.

[UK AC]

On June 20, an EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, internet-destroying copyright proposal that'll censor everything from Tinder profiles to Wikipedia (SHARE THIS!)

The European Union is updating its 2001 Copyright Directive, with a key committee vote coming up on June 20 or 21; on GDPR day, a rogue MEP jammed a mass censorship proposal into the draft that is literally the worst idea anyone in Europe ever had about the internet, ever.

[img]https://boingboing.net/2018/06/07/thanks-axel-voss.html

[ussuricat]

Daesh Continues Resistance in Syria Only in US-Controlled Areas – Russian MoD
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201806091065258652-daesh-us-controlled-areas-syria/

[ussuricat]

US Deploys Four Stratotanker Aircraft, 150 Personnel, to Western Ukraine
https://sputniknews.com/military/201806091065260365-usaf-tankers-in-ukraine/

[ussuricat]

Putin in Talks With Poroshenko Demanded to Free Arrested Journalists
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201806091065263212-journalists-talks-putin-poroshenko/

[ussuricat]

SYRIAN WAR REPORT – JUNE 7, 2018: KURDISH LEADERSHIP DECLARES READINESS FOR DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WITH DAMASCUS
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-june-7-2018-kurdish-leadership-declares-readiness-for-direct-negotiations-with-damascus/

[ussuricat]

HEZBOLLAH LEADER: WE WILL REMAIN IN SYRIA EVEN IF WORLD UNITES AGAINST US
https://southfront.org/hezbollah-leader-we-will-remain-in-syria-even-if-world-unites-against-us/

[ussuricat]

HOUTHIS LAUNCH “BALLISTIC MISSILES” AT SEVERAL MILITARY BASES IN SOUTHERN SAUDI ARABIA
https://southfront.org/houthis-launch-ballistic-missiles-at-several-military-bases-in-southern-saudi-arabia/

[ussuricat]

SYRIAN WAR REPORT – JUNE 8, 2018: SYRIAN ARMY CARRIES OUT ANTI-ISIS OPERATION IN EASTERN AL-SUWAYDA
https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-june-8-2018-syrian-army-carries-out-anti-isis-operation-in-eastern-al-suwayda/

[ussuricat]

Lockheed Martin Awarded $929 Million Contract For Hypersonic Weapon To Counter Russia, China
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-08/lockheed-martin-awarded-929-million-contract-hypersonic-weapon-counter-russia-china

[ussuricat]

RUSSIA AND TURKEY AGREED ON TWO SYRIAN CITIES
An agreement was reached between Russia and Turkey on the status of Jisr al-Shugur and Tal-Rifaat
http://www.iarex.ru/news/58225.html

[The Original Mind]

Thanks for keeping us updated ussuricat.

[Zambeezi]

250,000 people could die if Saudi-led coalition attacks Yemeni port city Hodeidah – UN official
https://www.rt.com/news/429160-hodeidah-yemen-saudi-strike/

Humanitarian choke-point (operational planning compliments of US/UK )
on May 29th they were 20km away....



►Saudi-led coalition in Yemen is seeking US support to recapture the port city of Hodeidah from Houthi rebels,
►a UN official in the country says such an attack could claim up to 250,000 lives.

"A military attack or siege on Hodeidah will impact hundreds of thousands of innocent lives," Lise Grande, the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, said in a Friday statement.

"In a prolonged worst case, we fear that as many as 250,000 people may lose everything — even their lives."

Her comments come just five days after The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that the Saudi-led coalition is seeking direct help from the US to regain the port city which 400,000 people call home.

Hodeidah "is essentially a lifeline for millions of struggling Yemenis. Twenty-two million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, and the goods and the fuel and the medicine that comes through Hodeidah is a lifeline for those people."

The Saudi-led coalition launched more than 15 strikes on Hodeidah province on Sunday, according to Saba News Agency.

Houthis vowed to continue their fight for the port city, saying "the West Coast will be a graveyard for the invaders and mercenaries.”

[UK AC]

Oh here we go again...    

The UK media is now spreading the narrative that there was also Russia collusion with the leading figure(s) behind the UKIP and the Brexit campaign.

Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’

The communications suggest:

• Multiple meetings between the leaders of Leave.EU and high-ranking Russian officials, from November 2015 to 2017.
  Two meetings in the week Leave.EU launched its official campaign.
  

• An introduction to a Russian businessman, by the Russian ambassador, the day after Leave.EU launched its campaign, who reportedly offered Banks a multibillion dollar opportunity to buy Russian goldmines.
  

• A trip to Moscow in February 2016 to meet key partners and financiers behind a gold project, including a Russian bank.
  

• Continued extensive contact in the run-up to the US election when Banks, his business partner and Leave.EU spokesman Andy Wigmore, and Nigel Farage campaigned in the US to support Donald Trump’s candidacy.
  

[img]https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/09/arron-banks-russia-brexit-meeting

[UK AC]

Here's the sort of hysteria we're going to see from this:

@911CORLEBRA777

And there it is. Nigel Farage, Arron Banks & Donald Trump. When the common denominator is Russian contacts & contacts between Trump's crew & the Brexit crew, collusion is the wrong word. Conspiracy seems entirely possible.




@veritasta
3h3 hours ago

It also offers something to Mueller, no?

Spoiler:

[UK AC]

Comes a day after Banks accused the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS) of collusion with a Pro-EU campaign group in order to create fake news.

[img]https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/1005085824445239301

[UK AC]

‘Stop Boris’ MPs rally round May ahead of crucial Brexit votes

Rebel Tory MPs who want to keep the UK in the EU customs union and single market appeared on Saturday to be backing away from defeating Theresa May in crucial parliamentary votes this week – because they fear the resulting humiliation could threaten her leadership and let in Boris Johnson.

Before a momentous week in the Commons, several votes – including on the customs union and the role of parliament in the Brexit “endgame” – remain on a knife edge. Labour, the SNP and Liberal Democrats need only a dozen or so Tories to join them to inflict humiliation on May, and throw her Brexit strategy into chaos.

While they are still determined to secure changes to ensure Britain stays in the customs union and close to the single market, they now believe the time to do so is later in the summer when the trade and customs bills return to the Commons.

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So Boris does have some uses it seems.

Spoiler:

[img]https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/09/stop-boris-theresa-may-mps-backing-crucial-votes-brexit

[Nuke68]

cnn does it again,



https://twitter.com/mhervieuxtenor/status/1005545367298101248

[UK AC]

Trump won't endorse G7 'tariff-fighting' communique, attacks 'weak & dishonest' Trudeau

[img]https://www.rt.com/usa/429288-trump-g7-trudeau-false

[Humanity Blows]

Lockheed Martin Awarded $929 Million Contract For Hypersonic Weapon To Counter Russia, China
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-08/lockheed-martin-awarded-929-million-contract-hypersonic-weapon-counter-russia-china

Now they're trying to play catch up with Russia, good luck with all that.

[UK AC]

@Partisangirl
15h15 hours ago

Who'se this muslim sheikh promoting Wahabism, ISIS's religious cult? Oh wait it's Israel's IDF spokesman @AvichayAdraee .

[img]https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1005366851872800768

[UK AC]

@Partisangirl

begs #Hamas to hate #Iran more, asks them to remember the words of “the great sheikh Qaradawi”, spiritual leader of the Muslim brotherhood.

[img]https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1005364787239243776

[UK AC]

I use chemicals? Prove it! Syrian President Assad brands gas attacks 'fake news' and calls Theresa May a 'colonialist and a liar' in astonishing face to face interview

President Bashar al-Assad has launched a furious attack on Britain, America and their allies, accusing them of deliberately prolonging the civil war in Syria.

Dismissing Theresa May as a colonialist and a liar, the Syrian leader claims Britain even helped stage April’s notorious chemical attack in the suburb of Douma and that its actions are giving support to the Islamic State terror group.

[img]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5825159/Syrian-President-Assad-brands-gas-attacks-fake-news.html

[UK AC]

Full video of new Assad interview

[img]https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/full-video-of-new-assad-interview/

[UK AC]

Full video of new Assad interview

[img]https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/full-video-of-new-assad-interview/

President Assad: It’s not about May and Trump; it’s about the Western politicians in general, the Western regimes in general. They don’t accept anyone who has a different point of view, any country, any government, any personality. That’s the case with Syria; Syria is very independent in its political positions, we work for our national interests, we’re not a puppet state. They don’t accept this reality. So, the whole approach toward Syria in the West is “we have to change this government, we have to demonize this president, because they don’t suit our policies anymore.” This is the situation, everything else is like flavors; they tell lies, they talk about chemical weapons, they talk about the bad president killing the good people, freedom, peaceful demonstration; all these lies are flavors for the main goal, which is regime change.

So, my answer to your question about how I see it is: this is colonial policy, that’s how we see it, and this is not new. They have never changed this policy since the old way of colonialism that existed in the beginning of the 20th century and the 19th century and before, but today it’s covered by, let’s say, a new mask, or different masks.

[UK AC]

NEW: Trump and Kim Jong Un may meet one-on-one — without other principals—for a few minutes.

[img]https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1005609374734213127



@Lee_Saks
1h1 hour ago

TRUMP OPEN TO U.S. EMBASSY IN PYONGYANG - SOURCES: AXIOS

[UK AC]

Digital IDs to end online mob rule and anonymity

Digital IDs should be introduced to remove online anonymity and end internet “mob rule”, the UK security minister has told The Times.

Ben Wallace, a former soldier, said bullying and grooming occurred on social media because offenders believed they cannot be identified. “It is mob rule on the internet. You shouldn’t be able to hide behind anonymity as much as you can now,” he added.

He said that banks can authenticate their users’ identities online, so there is no reason other websites could not do the same.

“I remember going to see an undercover online [investigation] into child sex exploitation. There was a children’s chat room with a 45-year-old pretending to be a 12-year-old. It was like blood in the water with a shark . . . If we’re going to make the internet safer, and cut out the abuse, we’re going to have to do something more about some form of digital identification.”

[img]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/digital-ids-to-end-online-mob-rule-and-anonymity-qq8lnwrcn

[UK AC]

Digital IDs to end online mob rule and anonymity

continued: 'Users show documents such as their passport and driver’s licence to validate their identity and create an online account.'

[img]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/digital-ids-to-end-online-mob-rule-and-anonymity-qq8lnwrcn

What brilliant ideas next? Jail sentences for those who use a VPN?

[Libertine]

Thank you for all the news updates everyone.
Grateful

[Humanity Blows]

NEW: Trump and Kim Jong Un may meet one-on-one — without other principals—for a few minutes.

[img]https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1005609374734213127



@Lee_Saks
1h1 hour ago

TRUMP OPEN TO U.S. EMBASSY IN PYONGYANG - SOURCES: AXIOS

Whoa. Did not see that coming. 10/10