Russian broadcaster VGTRK said it found the boy in the video, who appeared to be 11-year-old Hassan Diab. His story differed from the one presented by the activists and later propagated by the mainstream media. He was in the basement with his mother, who said they ran out of food, when they heard some noise outside.

“Somebody was shouting that we had to go to the hospital, so we went there. When I came in, some people grabbed me and started pouring water over my head,” he told Evgeny Poddubny, a war correspondent from Russian broadcaster VGTRK. Hassan confirmed that he was the boy in the video, and was very scared when the whole situation unfolded. He is now fine and shows no symptoms of having experienced a chemical attack two weeks ago.

the same location that sold out of "Fire & Fury" within 15 minutes only sold 4 copies of Comey's sanctimonious drivel. OUCH- MY SIDES

The 9th Circus is trying to keep Arpaio's conviction on his record despite his pardon.

"This is almost unprecedented... and implies that a short squeeze – in which speculators are forced to cover their short bets by buying silver futures, thus forcing the price sharply higher – is a real possibility."

"The fact that it is the same submarine [involved in the Syria attack] further reinforces the rightness of the order... are not welcome in the port of Naples and, therefore, they are not allowed to travel through or stay..."

YouTube has blocked 28 countries from watching a video of two journalists exposing the Israeli occupation. Presenter of Empire Files Abby Martin interviewed author Max Blumenthal, who also criticised violence from Israel's military against Palestinian protestors. The programme was broadcast on Latin American network teleSUR English. YouTube, owned by Google, says that the internet platform banned the video in 28 countries because it violates "local laws". Most of the countries YouTube has blocked from seeing the video are European. Elsewhere, YouTube has added a warning to the video and blocked all interactive features ...

Weapons of war have evolved over time, but the decision to kill has always been left with humans.

But with developing AI and autonomous technology, it is now possible to build killing machines that require no human input at all.

Taking the final decision away from a human raises serious ethical concerns over the use of fully-autonomous weapons.

It could mean wars will be less about fighting, and more extermination.

President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by Tweeting, "Mission Accomplished!" ... There is much about the US attack on Syria that reminds us of Iraq ... Where is Congress? It was disgraceful to see Speaker Paul Ryan telling the President he needs no Congressional authorization to attack Syria. All Members of Congress take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and the Constitution says that only Congress can declare war. Does that oath mean nothing these days? President Trump will come to regret the day he let the neocons take over his foreign policy. Their track record is abysmal. His attack on Syria was clearly illegal, and should his party lose the House in November he may find his new fair-weather friends in the Democratic Party quickly turning foul.

A shocking video of Barack Obama has been making the rounds on the internet showing the former president calling Donald Trump a 'total and complete dips***'.

If you didn't know any better, you might think the video is real.

In actuality, what appears to be Obama's voice is actually words spoken by 'Get Out' director and writer Jordan Peele.

Peele's voice and mouth were digitally inserted into the video using a sophisticated, but increasingly commonplace, technology that's powered by artificial intelligence, called 'deepfakes'.

'We're entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything at any point in time — even if they would never say those things,

Personal information scraped from the social media profiles of up to 48 million people was left unsecured on a publicly available web storage platform, potentially allowing anyone to access ‘highly sensitive’ data, a new report has warned.

According to security firm UpGuard, who uncovered the vulnerability, Washington-based Localblox pieced together data from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zillow, and other sites to ‘build a three-dimensional picture on every individual affected,’ ZD Net reports.

The records were then stored in a single file on a public, unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket.

While the bucket was secured hours after the researchers alerted Localblox’s CTO of the issue, the entire 1.2 terabyte file containing the information of millions of people had remained available to download for an unspecified amount of time beforehand.

Several government websites are mistakenly sending users to hardcore porn sites.

The Department of Justice's Amber Alert webpage, as well as the Department of Commerce's Weather.gov and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) webpages both seem to have been hit by the redirect bug.

In some cases, it redirects users to porn sites with names like 'schoolgirl porn' and 'girl v dog porn'.

The issue seemed to be resolved on most websites as of Wednesday afternoon, after being spotted on Tuesday evening.

Scientists in Belgium have tested the security of a wireless brain implant called a neurostimulator – and found that its unprotected signals can be hacked with off-the-shelf equipment.

And because this particularly bit of kit resides amid sensitive gray matter – to treat conditions like Parkinson's – the potential consequences of successful remote exploitation include voltage changes that could result in sensory denial, disability, and death.

The corporate media is pushing fake Cohen/Trump Russian collusion stories, Mueller pushes the corporate media to stop the fake news. Certain government employees are pushing for a criminal investigation against Comey, Lynch, McCabe and Rosenstein.

Cisco has patched a serious vulnerability in its WebEx software that lets an attacker remotely execute code on target machines via poisoned Adobe Flash files.

Switchzilla is today advising all users running WebEx Business Suite or WebEx Meetings (both client and server) to update their software in order to patch CVE-2018-0112.

For users, Facebook Login looks like a boon: they only need to use their Facebook password to log into multiple sites or apps. That, however, puts a very strong onus on Facebook to make sure the whole process is secure.

What Englebardt discovered is simple: “when a user grants a website access to their social media profile, they are not only trusting that website, but also third parties embedded on that site.”

The third parties were able to grab Facebook user ID, e-mail, name, and other profile information including (in one case) gender.

“We found seven scripts collecting Facebook user data using the first party’s Facebook access”, he wrote. The practice isn't yet widespread, thankfully: scripts to gather this user information were only found on 434 of the Alexa top million sites, including “fiverr.com, bhphotovideo.com, and mongodb.com”.

Russia has dropped a broad hint that it might leave the space launch business to private operators.

Space launches have become a relative commodity: SpaceX publishes a price list offering a Falcon 9 trip to geosynchronous transfer orbit for $62m, or $90m for Falcon Heavy.

Russia's official newsagency TASS carried a report suggesting the country might let the new generation of private launch vehicles have the business to themselves rather than try to build a platform that can compete with SpaceX.

So you’ve become a regular at the gym, turned vegan, and done almost everything in your power to stay physically healthy. What about staying mentally fit as well? Mental health is just as important as physical health. Mental fitness protects us from depression, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases.

Here's an eyewitness account of the subtle warning signs that should have alerted Venezuelans that the economic collapse was near.

Five Democratic members of Congress published a statement calling on Israel 'to exercise utmost restraint in the use of deadly force' in Gaza
Note. Why stop there insist on the right of return for Palestinians!

The oligarch president Poroshenko declares a new stage of this war, a military operation starting on April 30th.

It has been four years since the nationalists in Kiev took power after a coup and started a civil war in Southeastern Ukraine. According to the UN, there have been over 10,000 casualties since then. The number of those injured is much higher. Refugees? In the hundreds of thousands. Right now, the oligarch president Poroshenko declares a new stage of this war, a military operation starting on April 30th. That's Kiev's duplicitous idea of the implementation of the Minsk Treaties. There is no point in arguing with them anymore, all you can do is defend yourself. Here's a report about the heroes of the rebellion against the Kiev junta.

Under international law, crimes against humanity include “murder and other inhumane acts carried out against any civilian population… when such acts are done or such persecutions carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.”
A war crime is an act that constitutes a “serious violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility and include intentionally killing civilians… destroying civilian property… and serious violations of the principles of distinction and proportionality, such as strategic bombing of civilian populations.”
Note: First part is the standard mantra against Germany.

“We have a Google Doc of every Barnard student we know, and who’s talking to her,” said Ofir Dayan, the external relations chair of Students Supporting Israel at Columbia University.
Note: Let that statement sink in.

Let us not mince words. We are living in an age of war profiteers. \We are living in an age of scoundrels, liars, brutes and thugs. Many of them work for the U.S. government. We are living in an age of monsters.

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To this point, it is worth emphasizing that no new tariffs have in fact been levied, by either the U.S. or Chinese governments. The first round of announced U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods are still subject to a public comment period before becoming effective, and the content of the second round has yet to be formally decided upon. Thus, both countries have time to back away from their threats.

Also significant is the fact that both countries are being careful about the products they are threatening to tax. For example, the Trump administration has carefully avoided talking about placing tariffs on

It is not hard to guess the reason why:>>>

US-UK-France Bomb First Ask Questions Later: A Timeline of Events in Syria
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As the dust settles in Syria after the recent strikes, the investigators of the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are now set to begin their work. The Syrian government, which immediately granted OPCW investigators visas despite U.S. claims to the contrary, has stated that these investigators will be able to move freely, as the area, having been recently secured by the Syrian Arab Army, is now free of armed insurgents. However, concerns have been raised as the OPCW has been influenced by political forces in the past, particularly regarding events in Syria. One of the first sites investigators will visit will be Douma Hospital, where they will likely question the doctors and staff regarding what they saw on April 7, 2018.
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(*or should we attempt to show the same level of tolerance, and restraint we demonstrate towards Israel , everywhere else on Earth , like my grammer school teachers taught us we do , back when America was great ?)

The US debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to jump to 116.9 percent by 2023, leaving behind Italy, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In five years, the American debt burden will also be worse than some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, such as Mozambique or Burundi.
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The IMF says its forecasts are similar to those recently published by the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO said the US debt “is far greater than the debt in any year since just after World War II.”

The office also predicted that the debt held by the public will rise from 78 percent of GDP (or $16 trillion) at the end of 2018>>>

Donald Trump says he’s “looking forward” to moving the US embassy to Jerusalem next month. He struck an eager tone on Twitter, ahead of the opening of an interim facility on May 14 – the date of Israel’s 70th Independence

Tagging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the post, Trump thanked the Israeli people and declared the US has “no better friends anywhere.”

A consulate base in the Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem has been converted to house the US embassy. The site will host the US Ambassador’s office and the offices of a small number of staff. There are plans to add an annex by the end of 2019.

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The United Kingdom has crossed all red lines and ovetstepped thresholds of decency by accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of being involved in the military chemical program, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said on Wednesday at a United Nations Security Council meeting. According to the Russian diplomat, the British side has circulated at the UN Security Council a letter "full of false, ungrounded and slanderous allegations, as usual." "The United Kingdom has dared to speak about our chemical statement in a preemptory manner, to judge the methods of work of our special services. This time, our British colleagues have gone even further: they directly accused President Putin of being involved in the chemical military program," he said. "I don’t know whether London or the UK’s mission here see that you have overstepped the red line and the threshold of decency.

"To stage an offensive on government troops’ positions, Jabhat al-Nusra alone and affiliated units of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have pulled more than 12,000 militants and hundreds of hardware pieces, dozens of multiple missile launcher systems they received via corridors controlled by illegal armed groups along the border with Israel and Jordan," a military diplomatic source said on Thursday, adding that the offensive would be grounded by militants’ statements about alleged ceasefire violations of the Syrian army. "To magnify the effect, it is not ruled out than more provocations with the alleged use of improvised chemical weapons against civilians will follow," the source said. According to the source, the ultimate goal of the operation is to establish an autonomous territorial entity with a capital city in Daraa as is in the case of territories controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces in the northeast of Syria.

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The Russians are furious at being accused, (and nearly being sucked into WW3), and are preparing a massive presentation of evidence that the whole thing was a fraud. Their top diplomats are already angrily saying so.
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Question: what do you do if you are Donald Trump and you see this wrecking ball approaching your White House?

Answer: you step deftly aside and let is smash your political opponents to smithereens.
You feign outrage. You demand an investigation. You begin criminal proceedings against whole echelons of the deep state and the intelligence community. You pillory the media who parroted this preposterous lie.>>>

Two cruise missiles found unexploded by the Syrian military after the US missile strike on April 14 have been handed over to Russia, a source in the Syrian defense ministry told TASS on Thursday. "Two cruise missiles that did not detonate during the US missile strike on Syria overnight to April 14 were found by the Syrian military. Both are in rather good condition. These missiles were handed over to Russian officer the day before yesterday (April 17)," the source said, adding that both "were sent to Russia by plane yesterday (April 18)." TASS has no official confirmation of this information from the Russian defense ministry.

Assad Is Popular and Enjoys Broad Support. Media Are Lying (as Usual) When They Say Otherwise

Many anti-war activists, even those who are against bombing Syria, have described President Assad's rule as a "dictatorship" and his government as a "regime".

Many are simply aping the mainstream media. The truth is that the president is well-liked by his people.
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“Despite mainstream media efforts to demonise Assad, he has the support of most Syrians. Questions about electoral fraud has arisen, says Antonopoulos, “but this overlooks that the elections were overseen by observers from over 30 countries including from post-colonial states like Brazil, India and Uganda”.

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The operation was carefully orchestrated and methodically planned to lessen chances of civilian casualties, the spokesperson said. The missiles hit targets during the Syrian pre-dawn hours, and planners, weaponeers and aircrew were careful to ensure little collateral damage. “We successfully hit every target,” White said.

Missiles hit three distinct military chemical weapons targets. “The three facilities are – or more appropriately, were – the fundamental components of the regime’s chemical weapons warfare infrastructure,” McKenzie said.

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(*also:Pentagon Caught Lying as Russia Details US Missile Humiliation )

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Please forgive the use of bad language to punctuate bad behavior. There is no culture on Earth more evil and Satanic than that of Israel founded on the Nazi formula of Theodor Herzl and financed by the Satanic first family of arch-devils, Rothschild clan. The evil of the AshkeNAZI empire had its origin in the translation of the Ashkenazim into Khazar's. In the 9th century, King Bulan of Khazaria got hoodwinked by a filth peddling Talmudist. The Ashka-nimrods object to this linkage which is all the proof needed that it is so. If they say something is so, it is not and if they say something is not so, it is. This is a good rule of thumb to measure them by and it is always a spiritual affirmation to stick that thumb up your ass for emphasis and their version of an holy oil immersion process.

In an extraordinary exchange, a BBC News host told a former Navy Admiral that he shouldn’t question the motivation behind military intervention in Syria because “we’re in an information war with Russia”.

Admiral Lord West expressed doubt that the alleged chemical weapons attack which led to air strikes on Syria was actually carried out by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, asserting it “doesn’t ring true” and asking “what benefit is there for his military?”

A bizarre incident at a Maryland public school has an even more shocking twist, as parents reveal that their daughter attempted suicide at the school one day before seven other students cut their wrists with blades from pencil sharpeners. The parents say that the paramedics were not even called, and that the school tried to brush it under the rug.

The mainstream media is cheering on the psychopaths in government as they deliberately stoke conflict with Russia and press further forward with the Neocon agenda of total global war. If the media were doing its job, however, they’d be asking questions and pursuing truth in governmental matters in order to contribute to the good of society and the betterment of the world.