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Israeli Court Holds Peaceful NZ Activists Financially Liable for Persuading Lorde to Join Artistic Boycott

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NZ activists, Justine Sachs and Nadia Abu-Shanab

Israeli Court: NZ Activists Must Pay for Lorde Cancellation:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12141158&ref=NZH_fb&fbclid=IwAR1iSTZnybOrWefjckQtoIGnAMXsCAzYGE-uTxO0c-uJvi4J92PdH0EO-A0

An Israeli court has ordered two New Zealand women to pay over $12,000 in damages for allegedly helping persuade the pop singer Lorde to cancel a performance in Israel.

The suit was filed under a law that allows civil lawsuits against anyone who calls for a boycott against Israel. Thursday’s ruling is believed to be the first time the 2011 law has been applied.

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My Commentary: ???

Facebook ‘Unpublishes’ Multiple Popular Anti-Police-Brutality Pages

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Facebook Just Banned ‘Cop Block’ And Other Large Anti-Police Pages:
https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/facebook-just-banned-cop-block-and-other-large-anti-police-pages-kFdxAxma1EWWpq5XRQ8biw/?fbclid=IwAR3GkJmr-nHABJzAJh-l3rZ67vWntOEAJThQvnAmfM8qf1eUgju7feF42fQ

() Facebook announced on Thursday that 559 pages had been deleted for flooding their platform with politically-oriented spam, according to Washington Post.

Among the pages taken down were notorious anti-police pages for Cop Block, The Free Thought Project, and Police the Police, which had roughly seven million followers between them.

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My Commentary: #StatistPrivilege

Facebook Has Begun Scrubbing Its Platform of Popular Anti-Establishment Pages

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following screenshot, being shared by an acquaintance, and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

John Vibes, was administrator of the following now-unpublished pages:
Police the Police, Police the Police NY, Cop Block, Cop Logic, Rachel Blevins, Gun Laws Don’t Work, The Liberty Principle: No Consent from the Governed, Policing the Police, Legalizing Cannabis, Get involved you live here, Fuck the Government, Filming Cops, New School Raphael 1, Voluntaryist Veterans, Anonymous News, End the War on Drugs and Hemp.

My Commentary: Facebook has been busy..

Fresh Bodies for the State Meat-Grinder

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Children Over 12 Face Jail Time for Trick-or-Treating in Some Towns:
https://abc7ny.com/society/children-over-12-face-jail-time-for-trick-or-treating-in-some-towns/4450665/

Let’s start with a big question: How old is too old to trick or treat?

Some cities not only suggest an age, they will send kids over the “legal” limit to jail for dressing up and going door-to-door looking for candy.

In Chesapeake, Virginia, anyone over the age of 12 who is caught trick-or-treating could be sent to jail for up to 6 months and fined.

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My Commentary: Fresh bodies for the State meat-grinder.

Government Grabbing for Grills

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Allen Turner

A Florida Man Faces Prison for Making Grills Without a License:
http://reason.com/blog/2018/10/09/fla-grills-dentisty-license-arrest-fine

() Dental grills have been around for thousands of years—Vice reports that rich Etruscan women were fitting their teeth with gold as early as the seventh century B.C. The service was not carried out by a dentist but by a goldsmith. But in 2018, a Florida man faces charges for doing something similar without a dental license.

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My Commentary: Making grills without paying for a “license” appears to be more of a crime than straight knocking someone’s teeth out…