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| Medvedev predicts Clooney's failure to persecute Russian journalists |
| 2024-06-02 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Responding to this story from yesterday [Regnum] The foundation of American actor George Clooney will waste its efforts in pursuing Russian journalists, since they themselves will find the actor first and talk to him “from dusk to dawn.” This was announced on June 1 by Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev on the social network X. |
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| Actor George Clooney's foundation announces a hunt for Russian journalists | |
| 2024-06-01 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The foundation of American actor George Clooney will seek the issuance of sealed arrest warrants for Russian journalists in Europe. This was stated by Anna Neistat, Director of Legal Affairs of the Docket project, in an interview with Voice of America radio (a media outlet recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).
“That is, in any European country, journalists can be arrested and extradited to a country that is investigating a criminal case against them,” Neistat said. She added that no appeals had yet been sent and refused to name the journalists who were planned to be persecuted. According to her, we are talking about “the most obvious Russian propagandists, the most visible of them.” She also said that the project asks prosecutors to write closed arrest warrants so that people do not know about it and travel to other countries where they can be arrested. As reported by IA Regnum, on May 17, the Council of the EU banned the broadcasting of three Russian media in the territory of the European Union: RIA Novosti, Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The sanctioned media must completely stop distributing any content through electronic media. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the ban on broadcasting of three Russian media in the EU a purge of the information space. The department added that this decision was based solely on political motives. The media reported on May 15 that this decision was agreed upon by the ambassadors of European countries. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia will respond to the West with lightning speed and pain if the work of Russian journalists is limited. The ICJ and ICC put Israel on notice but cannot stop the war Related: George Clooney 05/14/2024 Biden to hold star-studded fundraiser featuring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Obama George Clooney 10/27/2023 Torture and murder. Germany is investigating Russian crimes in Ukraine George Clooney 10/17/2023 Hamas considers Israeli captives as potential bargaining chips for prisoner release. Really. | |
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| Biden to hold star-studded fundraiser featuring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Obama | |
| 2024-05-14 | |
 [NYPOST] President Biden is set to host a celebrity-filled Los Angeles fundraiser in June — enlisting stars such as George Clooney and Julia Roberts
Former President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... , Biden’s old boss, also will be a featured guest as well as "other top surrogates and supporters," a Biden campaign official told The Post. In addition to their fundraiser appearance, Clooney, 63, and Roberts, 56, will be participating in a "contest" as part of the campaign, which will be blasted out on "social media, digital advertisements, and emails and text messages" to engage grassroots donors, according to the Biden re-election official. | |
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| Torture and murder. Germany is investigating Russian crimes in Ukraine |
| 2023-10-27 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Korrespondent] The Clooney Foundation for Justice, the charity of lawyer Amal Clooney and her husband, Hollywood actor George Clooney, has asked German prosecutors to investigate three counts of alleged war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. The applications were submitted to the German prosecutor's office, since German law enshrines the principle of universal jurisdiction - the country's law enforcement agencies can begin a criminal investigation into crimes committed outside Germany, regardless of the citizenship of the suspects or victims or whether any of them have ties to Germany. Moreover, in these three cases specifically, some families of the victims or victims live in Germany, while others are ready to come and testify in the country. The suspects are senior and middle-level commanders of the Russian army. COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE CFJ represents 16 victims and victims' families. Since the beginning of the war, Docket, a separate project of the foundation consisting of international lawyers and investigators, has been collecting evidence and preparing materials detailing crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. Their work included numerous field investigations in Ukraine, as well as extensive analysis of open source data. As the foundation explains, if German authorities consider the evidence presented against specific people to be convincing, they can open a criminal investigation and issue arrest warrants for the suspects, which will allow them to be detained, extradited and prosecuted. Arrest warrants can be executed in countries outside Germany through the Europol and Interpol systems. The International Criminal Court can also issue arrest warrants for key suspects. German courts occupy a leading position in the world in investigating international crimes in accordance with the principle of universal jurisdiction. They were investigating crimes committed by the Islamic State group against the Yazidis, an ethno-religious minority in Iraq. WHAT KIND OF CASES The first case concerns the shelling of the village of Sergeevka in the Odessa region with X-22 missiles in the summer of 2022, which killed 22 people and injured 40 more. As noted in the collected dossier, they were all civilians, and there were no military installations around. The victims are relatives of the 11 victims, as well as three survivors, two of whom are children. According to the foundation, the use of Kh-22 missiles, which have low accuracy and high power, may be classified as prohibited methods of warfare. The high command of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation may be responsible for this. The second case concerns the detention, torture and murder of four men in the Kharkov region. They were detained in March 2022 by the forces of the self-proclaimed “LPR”, after which nothing was known about their fate for a long time, and a few months later their bodies were discovered. The victims are the families of the three killed, and the suspects are four commanders of the “LPR” and Russian army units who controlled the surrounding territory. The third case concerns murders, torture, sexualized violence and robberies in March 2022 in the Kyiv region. The case records the murders of at least 28 people, five cases of rape, and the torture of eight people. The victims in the case include the family of one of the killed and a man who was detained and tortured, and five Russian commanders who led units that participated in the occupation are suspected of crimes. Related: Amal Clooney: 2023-09-01 'Barbie' in Russia: protect against lack of spirituality or legalize pirates Amal Clooney: 2021-12-01 German court fines ISIS turban Taha Al-J. €50k on top of life sentence for death of Yezidi slave child Amal Clooney: 2021-11-30 World's first trial for genocide against Yazidis set to conclude in Germany |
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 ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",..., the Paleostinian resistance group, has indicated its readiness to use Israeli captives, kidnapped during an attack on southern Israeli areas, as leverage to secure the release of Paleostinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Hamas, which has long demanded the release of around 6,000 Paleostinians detained in Israeli prisons, made this statement through its leader, Khaled Meshaal. The Dollar Store George Clooney Meshaal conveyed that the group possesses the means to free all Paleostinians incarcerated in Israeli jails. The recent incident involved Hamas ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... , while Hamas claims the number is between 200 and 250. In 2011, Israel carried out a controversial exchange, releasing hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners in exchange for one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who had been held for five years. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... a similar exchange in the current situation, with numerous captives involved, appears highly challenging. Israel, which has responded with ... KABOOM!... s in Gaza resulting in hundreds of Paleostinian casualties, has vowed to free the hostages while also targeting Hamas. The hostages in question include individuals from various countries, including Thailand and Germany. Other nations have reported their citizens as missing, and there are also Israelis with dual nationality from countries such as the UK and the US believed to be among the kidnapped. Hamas' armed wing, in a video message, referred to the non-Israeli captives as "guests" and stated they would be released when circumstances permit. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... no further details were provided. Another senior Hamas official, Moussa Abu Marzouk, mentioned that the release of foreign prisoners is complicated due to the ongoing Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The situation remains tense and sensitive, with international attention focused on the potential exchange of captives and the broader conflict between Hamas and Israel.
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| Stick a fork in Meghan and Harry — these royal Kardashians are done |
| 2022-05-11 |
[NYPOST] Every time I think Prince Harry couldn’t possibly make himself look more cringeworthy, up he pops to prove me spectacularly, eye-rollingly wrong.The renegade royal’s latest howler is a laugh-out-loud tourism commercial he’s made for New Zealand television to promote his sustainable eco-travel nonprofit organization, Travalyst.Sadly, the laughter was once again at him, not with him. Wearing a "Girl Dad" T-shirt, Harry is seen jogging through the woods before he’s stopped by eco-tourist "rating agents" and berated about a lollipop wrapper he supposedly dropped there during a 2018 royal tour trip with wife Meghan, but praised for turning off running tap water while he brushes his teeth. That revelation prompted a bewildered Harry to exclaim: "How do you know that? That’s really weird." Because, of course, he’s such a private guy and that’s secret personal information that could only be known if he’d turned into a Kardashian with 24/7 cameras recording his every ablution and tooth-cleansing. Oh, wait, he has! Harry and Meghan have become the royal Kardashians, only a slightly trashier version if that was even possible: a pair of shameless chancers whose only thought each day is how to fleece and exploit their royal titles ever more cynically, while simultaneously trashing the royal family and monarchy to which they owe their status — and playing the downtrodden, oppressed victims from their $11 million Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, mansion. The hypocrisy in everything they do is breathtaking, and never better illustrated than with Harry’s latest preaching about "sustainable eco-travel." He loves self-righteously barking at us all about the urgent need to save the planet by reducing our carbon footprint, as he uses private jets like we use taxis. Just as he and Meghan pleaded for us to think about poverty on Twitter on the very same day she was throwing a $500,000 baby shower in New York (and hopping back to London on George Clooney’s plane). But it’s their constant bleating about privacy that most sticks in the craw given their decision to accept a reported $115 million payment from Netflix to trail around after them with cameras, capturing their most "private" moments for the delectation of the public. |
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| Ukrainian detained in Dubai over raunchy naked balcony photoshoot claimed to be US Democratic Party adviser |
| 2021-04-08 |
 [RT] A man purporting to be a US political strategist has reportedly been detained by police in the United Arab Emirates, after more than a dozen models ditched their kit for saucy snaps on a balcony in the conservative Gulf country. Kiev-based news network Strana reported on Tuesday that Vitaly Grechin, originally from the Ukrainian capital, had been arrested by officers in Dubai. Footage shot by a startled neighbor showed the group posing for naked pictures on the terrace of a high-rise apartment, and went viral online. Authorities in the Gulf state said that "the recently publicized photo shoot contravened UAE law" and added that "the individuals involved will be deported." The stunt is said to have contravened laws banning indecency and pornography. While the women were identified as being from countries of the former Soviet Union, particularly Ukraine, initial media reports claimed that the male organizer involved was Russian. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... a number of other outlets later identified him as a Ukrainian. Citing sources in the troubled Eastern European country, Strana claims that Grechin has spent much of his life in America and is notorious for posting pictures of himself surrounded by scantily-clad women. In an interview with the local ’Exclusive Style’ magazine, he reportedly claimed to have served in the US Army before returning to Kiev to work in the American Embassy. At the same time, Grechin is said to have revealed in the archived interview that he had a personal relationship with former US President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... , and even helped with the financing of the Democratic politician’s election campaign. In snaps posted to his Facebook page, he posed alongside both Obama and former presidential candidate Crooked HillaryClinton  ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world,usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... . Other pictures show him eating spaghetti alongside George Clooney and staging another sultry photoshoot with models on a boat. It is unclear whether Grechin is among those set to be deported from the UAE, but if charged with breaching decency laws, he could face a lengthy spell in an Emirati prison. |
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| Hollywood Heavyweights Pour Cash into Georgia Senate Runoffs |
| 2020-11-24 |
[BREITBART] Georgia is ground zero in the battle for the balance of power in Washington, D.C., as control of the U.S. Senate now hinges on the outcome of the two Senate runoff races in the Peach State. With the Senate majority leadership within his reach, Sen. Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.96814 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...(D-NY) recently declared, "Now we take Georgia, and then we change America." Nobody is happier to make Schumer’s declaration a reality than Hollywood, as many of the industry’s biggest power players are putting their money and influence behind Georgia’s Democratic Senate candidates to win that fight. A-list stars including George Clooney, Will Smith, Joaquin Phoenix, and Leonardo DiCaprio are pouring cash into Georgia’s runoff elections, hoping to push Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock across the finish line, thereby flipping the Senate blue. Related: Chuck Schumer: 2020-11-19 Dem Leadership Keeps Calm, Slithers On Chuck Schumer: 2020-11-18 Schumer to include Upstate New York and Puerto Rico in statehood legislation Chuck Schumer: 2020-11-04 Biden's influence-peddling is consistent with what I wrote in my book, 'Capitol Hills Criminal Underground' Related: George Clooney: 2020-05-30 U.S. Sentry alerts against corruption by South Sudan senior military leader George Clooney: 2019-09-26 Police fire water cannon as Indonesians rally against new laws George Clooney: 2019-03-30 George Clooney calls for hotel boycott over Brunei LGBT laws Related: Will Smith: 2020-04-03 How Scientology is coping with COVID-19 as chairman David Miscavige declares crisis 'hysteria' and 'planetary bullbait' and Tom Cruise and John Travolta have 'special bunkers' at secretive base in California Will Smith: 2019-08-03 CNN Business - White Robots Are Raaaaacist Will Smith: 2017-12-21 Will Smith: ‘Darkness' of Trump Era a Reaction to ‘Light'-Filled Obama Years Related: Joaquin Phoenix: 2020-07-15 It’s not just police: Public servants of all stripes are now under assault Joaquin Phoenix: 2003-07-14 Disney Steps In It Again Related: Leonardo DiCaprio: 2020-02-11 Emails Show Gov. John Kasich's Team Are Secretly Helping Biden, Hoping to Get Leonardo DiCaprio: 2019-12-06 Chris Wallace Criticizes Dems for Refusing to Call on Republican Impeachment Witness Leonardo DiCaprio: 2019-12-06 Convicted Pedophile Used In Mueller Investigation Indicted For Funneling Millions In Illegal Contributions to Hillary Related: Jon Ossoff: 2020-11-18 California residents flock to Georgia to help Democrats in Senate run-offs Jon Ossoff: 2020-11-09 Andrew Yang moving to Atlanta to help Democrats win Senate runoffs Jon Ossoff: 2018-11-01 Top Planned Parenthood Contributions to House and Senate Races Related: Raphael Warnock: 2020-11-19 ‘Massive Civil Disobedience': Victor Davis Hanson Predicts Pushback As States Impose More Coronavirus Restrictions Raphael Warnock: 2020-11-19 Democrat Raphael Warnock Claims You Can't Serve In Military and Serve God, Christians Fire Back Raphael Warnock: 2020-11-18 California residents flock to Georgia to help Democrats in Senate run-offs |
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| U.S. Sentry alerts against corruption by South Sudan senior military leader | |
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 [Sudan Tribune] U.S. watchdog group, The Sentry, has alerted against major corruption and money laundering by high ranking military leaders in South Sudan. In a report released on Wednesday “Making a Killing: South Sudanese Military Leaders’ Wealth, Explained,” the sentry said that the fact the engagement in business activities of the last four army chiefs of staff and three opposition militia leaders in South Sudan is "demonstrating red flags for money laundering and corruption". The report examines the commercial and financial activities of former Army Chiefs of Staff Gabriel Jok Riak, James Hoth Mai, Paul Malong Awan, and Oyay Deng Ajak, along with top-ranking military chiefs Salva Mathok Gengdit, Bol Akot Bol, Garang Mabil, and Marial Chanuong. Militia leaders linked to major instances of violence both before and during the civil war — Gathoth Gatkuoth Hothnyang, Johnson Olony, and David Yau Yau — are also profiled in the report. One of the Sentry investigators Shannon Mizzi said the lack of transparency and anti-corruption measures in the country allow its military leaders to easily divert funds and conclude corrupt arms deals. "Many of South Sudan’s senior military leaders have amassed enormous wealth. Their posts provided easy access to government funds that appear to have financed luxurious lifestyles for relatives overseas in some instances," Mizzi said. The report comes out weeks after the announcement by the World Bank last April of a $7.6 grant in support of South Sudan efforts to fight COVID-19 pandemic. South Sudan medical infrastructure and response capacities have been already stressed by civil war and weakened by the corruption that has benefitted military officials and top political leaders, says the report. “With three times as many generals as physicians, South Sudan’s medical system is completely unprepared for COVID-19," said John Prendergast, Co-Founder of The Sentry. For his part, J.R. Mailey suggested to take a proactive response to ensure that the international support in response for COVID-19 pandemic would not be diverted by the country military officials to their private accounts.
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| Police fire water cannon as Indonesians rally against new laws |
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| [DAWN] Indonesian police fired water cannon and tear gas to break up protests on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of students gathered in cities nationwide over issues that included a new criminal code that penalises adultery and revised laws on corruption. President Joko Widodo on Friday ordered a delay in parliament’s vote on the new criminal code, which would replace a Dutch colonial-era set of laws, saying a new parliament should deliberate on the bill next month. The revisions to the code also include penalties for sex outside marriage, insulting the president’s dignity, a four-year jail term for Though the vote was not included in Tuesday’s plenary session in parliament, some politicians have said they would try to come up with a new draft to bring it to a vote before their current term ends at the end of this month. Students, often wearing colourful jackets from their alma maters, gathered in cities across the country. Thousands gathered in the front and back entrances to Jakarta’s parliament building, demanding to meet with parliament speaker Bambang Soesatyo. Soesatyo held a news conference inside the building urging calm, but refused to answer questions from news hounds on whether the vote would be delayed until new parliament takes office, repeating the vote could happen in the current term. Police then fired water cannon and tear gas in an attempt to disperse the crowd. Indonesia’s benchmark stock index dropped more than one percnet on Tuesday, amid worries over domestic political tensions, said Fakhrul Fulvian, an economist with Trimegah Sekuritas. Related: Water cannon: 2019-09-16 Tear gas, Molotovs and brawls mark 99th day of Hong Kong protests Water cannon: 2019-09-15 Police face protesters in Nantes as 'yellow vest' marches resume Water cannon: 2019-09-04 Hong Kong : Carrie Lam (and owner, CPC ?) To Withdraw Extradition Bill Related: Adultery: 2019-08-06 British Al-Rayan Bank, controlled by Qatar, works with a charity banned in the US for having terrorist links Adultery: 2019-03-30 George Clooney calls for hotel boycott over Brunei LGBT laws Adultery: 2019-03-25 Harsh rules, violent punishments under IS rule |
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| George Clooney calls for hotel boycott over Brunei LGBT laws |
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| [BBC] Hollywood actor George Clooney is calling for a boycott of nine luxury hotels with links to Brunei, after the country said gay sex and adultery would soon be punishable by death. He said Dorchester Collection hotels in the US, UK, France and Italy, which are owned by the Brunei Investment Agency, should be avoided by those who oppose the measures. |
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