Ireland, Norway and Spain recognize Palestinian statehood. Germany will arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot there. Lindsey Graham afraid of The Hague.

^ Current panic status of Israel-o-meter ^

 

Israel and their supporters are losing their minds over other sovereign countries (since that seems to be such a key word these days), recognizing The Noticing.

"Israel will not remain silent." That's their problem. They don't know when to STFU. What you gonna do about it, Israel Katz?*

 

* Wiki: Israel Katz, this guy is a piece of work. Argued BDS supporters be targeted for assassination: 

In March 2016, Katz argued that Israel should employ "targeted civil eliminations" against leaders of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). The expression puns on the Hebrew word for targeted assassinations.

During an interview on Israeli TV, Katz quoted Yitzhak Shamir by saying that Poles "suckled anti-Semitism from their mothers' breasts," allegedly causing Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to cancel his visit to Israel in February 2019. Morawiecki said the remarks were "unacceptable" and "racist".

RT: Israel’s immunity cracks: The Hague goes after Netanyahu.

[Prosecutor Karim] Khan also accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Galant of a similar set of crimes against humanity and war crimes: starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, willfully causing great suffering or serious injury, cruel treatment, willful killing, intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population, extermination and/or murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.

RT: ‘We’re next!’ US senator warns about ICC.

A group led by Lindsey Graham ["group" as in UniParty...- DD] has urged sanctions against The Hague-based court.

If the International Criminal Court is willing to go after the Israeli leadership, it won’t hesitate to go after US lawmakers, according to Senator Lindsey Graham. The South Carolina Republican has united with Democrats in calling for sanctions on the Hague court.

Good. The Hague should go after the corrupt bastards in DC. No body (organization) in the U.S. is willing to do it.

Naked woman jumps on police car.

Image:  Solarpix

Metro: Naked woman jumps on police car after leaving court for lockdown breach. 

This is the bizarre moment a naked woman jumps on top of a police car following a court appearance for flouting Spain’s coronavirus lockdown.

The 41-year-old was reportedly first arrested after neighbours alerted police to a woman streaking during the daily round of applause for emergency workers in the Costa del Sol resort of Torremolinos.

Following her release on bail she immediately stripped off again and leapt on top of the cruiser.

The emergency workers appreciated her display of graditude. The "neighbors" ratted her out. Can't trust some neighbors.
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Study finds You Tube is a gateway to far-right ideologies.

Tech Crunch: Study of YouTube comments finds evidence of radicalization effect.

Research presented at the ACM FAT 2020 conference in Barcelona today supports the notion that YouTube’s platform is playing a role in radicalizing users via exposure to far-right ideologies.

The study, carried out by researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, found evidence that users who engaged with a middle ground of extreme right-wing content migrated to commenting on the most fringe far-right content.

A March 2018 New York Times article by sociologist Zeynep Tufekci set out the now widely reported thesis that YouTube is a radicalization engine. Followup reporting by journalist Kevin Roose told a compelling tale of the personal experience of an individual, Caleb Cain, who described falling down an “alt right rabbit hole” on YouTube.

Their paper, called “Auditing radicalization pathways on YouTube,” details a large-scale study of YouTube looking for traces of evidence — in likes, comments and views — that certain right-leaning YouTube communities are acting as gateways to fringe far-right ideologies.
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We reached out to YouTube for a response to the research but the company did not reply to our questions.

The company has tightened its approach toward certain far-right and extremist content in recent years, in the face of growing political and public pressure over hate speech, targeted harassment and radicalization risks.

It has also been experimenting with reducing algorithmic amplification of certain types of potentially damaging nonsense content that falls outside its general content guidelines — such as malicious conspiracy theories and junk science.

You Tube didn't reply to questions from Tech Crunch? Why, that's shocking. You Tube customer service is the finest ever, hands-down. Must be something temporary or they're short-staffed due to the flu.

It's impossible to visit You Tube and not fall into an "alt-right rabbit hole", isn't it? Happens all the time. I'll be watching an AC/DC video and then, just like Hillary says, those Dark Web Right Wing Videos fly by, you don't know what you really just viewed, you don't really remember what it was, can't find it again, and then free-fall into unintended depths of "alt-right rabbit holes".

I haven't read Switzerland’s Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil study, but I'm betting it's pretty junky science, both capricious and arbitrary.

Oh, yeah - who's Zeynep Tufekci? Here ya go.
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Barcelona; five suspects shot and killed by police; Cambrils terrorists killed

Several shot by police. Sky News:

Police confirm several attackers have been killed in a shoot-out as raids are carried out following the Barcelona attack.
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19:09 - According to La Vanguardia, five suspects were shot dead in Cambrils in an operation that began about nine hours after the attack in Barcelona city centre.
19:01 - Police in Catalonia have confirmed they have killed the perpetrators of a "terrorist attack" in Cambrils.
19:00 - Spanish media: Several attacker [sic] have been killed in a shoot-out south of Barcelona after police announced an operation in Cambrils.

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Sky News is now reporting the Cambrils incident may have been a second, attempted terrorist attack. 

Four suspected terrorists have been killed in a shoot-out with police in a second possible terror attack in Spain.

Police warned agents had been deployed to the coastal town of Cambrils, while Catalan authorities urged local residents in a Twitter post to "stay home" and "stay safe".

Obama's Barcelona Tweet

Because he did SO MUCH in EIGHT YEARS fighting Islamic Terrorism.

Barack Obama: All talk, no action. See PUSSY. (SFW)

Man in background from #Barcelona Twitter

Wait for it...🕶 #Rambla #Barcelona pic.twitter.com/ittCC2J72a

— Octavian.cc (@octavian_cc) August 17, 2017

Watch the man who walks across the screen; notice his shirt. 

From Twitter, #Barcelona.

Barcelona Terror Attack - breaking news 10:41AM MST

The Guardian: Barcelona van driver still on the run.

Continuing Barcelona updates and coverage located at Jihad Watch.

4:15PM MST - Fox News on YouTube and The Independent reporting van driver NOT IN CUSTODY.

Reddit:  Barcelona "False Flag" accusations with no supporting evidence.

A handout photo made available by Spanish National Police shows Maghrebi Driss Oukabir

3:49 PM MST - UDPATE: Suspect or Not? Fox News:

The first suspect named by police in connection to the Barcelona terror attack was identified as Driss Oukabir, a Moroccan citizen.

However, later in the day, Spanish media agency La Vanguardia reported a man with that name approached police to say he was not the suspect. Police so far have not clarified whether they released the right name.

Updates: #Barcelona @Twitter

3:42 PM MST - UPDATE:  Fox News' Shepard Smith is reporting that the driver of the van is NOT in custody. This, from Fox News television coverage at YouTube. 


3:30 PM MST - UPDATE: The Telegraph is reporting Police say earlier house explosion is connected to van attack. 

Other news sources have not confirmed the above.
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The van believed to have been used in the attack. - The Telegraph

3:22 PM MST - UPDATE: Death toll at 13.  The Telegraph:

"We can confirm there are 13 dead and more than 50 injured," regional interior minister Joaquim Forn said in a tweet.

Catalan police said they had arrested one suspect, and denied earlier reports that the perpetrator was holed up in a bar near the scene.

The Sidney Morning Herald: People started running, screaming.

Live coverage here. 

UPDATE: Hostages said to be taken. The Sun:

HOSTAGE TERROR Barcelona attack – Two ‘gunmen’ storm Turkish restaurant and takes hostages after Las Ramblas terror van rampage leaves ’13 dead’ and 20 injured.

More: Spain News 12 lists the timeline of events.
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Barcelona, Spain terrorist attack. Sky News:

Police say a "massive crash" in Barcelona city centre in which several people are feared to have been killed is a terrorist attack.

A white van mounted the pavement of Las Ramblas, the main tourist area in the city, and struck several people, police said.
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Several newspapers have reported two people have died and at least 20 have been wounded, and officials have confirmed there are dead.

More coverage at:

The Independent.  

The Telegraph. 

The Daily Star.