The former French soccer player and “actor” Eric Cantona was on stage in London. The concert took place last week. The aim was to support Hamas and the Arabs in Gaza. Cantona, a former soccer player from Manchester United, has even started a political reading. He read “The enemy of the sun” of the Palestinian “poet” Nasser Aruri. The text is a glorification of Palestinian terrorism and the murder of Jews. Since he no longer earns money with his feet, Cantona uses his remaining glory for the Palestinian “cause”.Not so long ago he criticized Trump for his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. When Israel fought in 2014 to stop the rocket fire on its cities, Cantona was also there. Then he called on the French to put pressure on the Netherlands against the Jewish state.  As an advocate for the so-called refugees, who also supports the BDS, Cantona had called for a boycott of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Israel.
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The young woman who was strangled to unconsciousness by her husband in Bad Salzschlirf on Friday is dead. The 27-year-old Iraqi woman passed away on Sunday after being seriously injured in hospital. This was confirmed by Harry Wilke, the press officer of the public prosecutor’s office in Fulda, when asked by the Internet portal OSTHESSEN-NEWS.The woman was visiting friends in Bad Salzschlirf. Her husband, with whom she had come to Germany in January 2019 and had applied for asylum, but from whom she had meanwhile separated, appeared on Friday in East Hesse. How the 27-year-old, who is registered in Lebach ( a town in the state of Saarland), came to her address is still unclear.He had wanted to talk to his wife in order to win her back, is the prosecution’s name. An argument in the bedroom of the acquaintances escalated, the 27-year-old strangled his victim unconscious. Neighbours told OSTHESSEN-NEWS on Friday: “You could hear the screams all the way to the street. I thought someone was going to get killed. When he came out of the bedroom, he had told his acquaintances, according to the public prosecutor’s office, that his wife was tired and had gone to sleep. This seemed strange to the woman’s friends, so they looked and found the lifeless woman. They immediately called the ambulance service and triggered a large police operation.The alleged perpetrator was arrested on Friday without resistance and is currently in remand. The 27-year-old was brought before the magistrate on Saturday, who issued an arrest warrant for attempted manslaughter. The woman was still alive at the time. “Since the victim has died in the meantime, the arrest warrant must be rewritten”, Wilke explains, “after the first investigations we assume an intention to kill.”

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By Thomas Lifson

The Daily Mail of London has exclusive claims based on anonymous inside sources that supports the theory that Jeffrey Epstein was assassinated to prevent him from incriminating others.

Jeffrey Epstein told prison guards and fellow inmates that he believed someone had tried to kill him in the weeks before his death, a source has revealed to DailyMail.com

The insider, who had seen the disgraced financier on several occasions during his incarceration at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, also claims that the normally reserved Epstein seemed to be in good spirits.
‘There was no indication that he might try to take his own life,’ the source told DailyMail.com
‘From what I saw, he was finally starting to adjust to prison. I think he was comforted by the rigidity of his new life.’

Attorney General William Barr, who already has a very full plate investigating the Russia Hoax, is “appalled” by the death and promises, “Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered.”

Epstein was supposedly under constant video surveillance. If it turns out that a mysterious glitch rendered the system inoperable at the critical moments of death, that will be enough to destroy any credibility for the idea it was a genuine suicide. Who authorized the reported end of the suicide watch? There are investigative leads that must be pursued with all the vigor the Department of Justice is capable of.
Peter Skurkiss today nails it, as he writes,

“[P]ublic trust will continue to evaporate. This spells trouble for all of us. If people’s confidence in government falls far enough, then things can be held together only with force. That won’t be America.”

And already we are seeing lunatic theories bandied about:

It is still possible that some of the truth will come out thanks to documents seized from Epstein’s townhouse, flight logs, and other data. So far as I know, nobody has investigated his private island residence for evidence. Civil litigation will proceed as well.
Many people old enough to have seen it on live television in 1963 are reminded of the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, another instance of shutting up someone who could have uncovered a mystery that remains an open sore. Epstein’s death in federal custody is the worst blow against trust in government since the assassinations of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald.

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A 17-year-old Syrian was arrested this Sunday morning in the Copa Beach area of Vienna’s Donaustadt district after stabbing a 19-year-old man in the back with a knife. The argument took place at 5.00 a.m., the suspect and the stabbed man are both Syrian citizens. It is still unclear why the 17-year-old had stabbed him. The 17-year-old had fled after the crime, but was picked up by the police a short time later. The injured man – there was no danger to his life – was taken to a hospital by the ambulance. 

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Austrian media has reported that a 72-year-old Iranian-Austrian dual national has been held in Evin Prison since January 2019.

On July 31, Der Standard newspaper identified the prisoner as Massud Mossaheb, the secretary general of the Iranian-Austrian Friendship Society [German link].

More than seven months after his arrest and imprisonment, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Peter Guschelbauer has now announced that the Austrian government has demanded that Iran release Mossaheb. “It was not so long ago that Austria was seen as a possible mediator when other countries were trying to extract their citizens who had fallen into the meat grinder of Iranian justice,” the article in Der Standard, a left-liberal paper, reported. “Today, however, Austria has not succeeded in doing anything for its own citizens sitting in Iranian prisons.”

The report also reminded its readers of Kamran Ghaderi, another jailed Iranian-Austrian dual national. Ghaderi, who was arrested in January 2016, had previously traveled to Iran on several occasions for work and for business seminars, including as a member of the Austrian delegation to Tehran led by then-President Heinz Fischer in October 2015. At the time, following the nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers, the Islamic Republic had made it a priority to improve economic and commercial ties with the world.

Ghaderi’s commercial relations with Iran, however, have a long history. He was the CEO of Avanoc, an IT management and consulting company, and had worked with the Iranian banking industry for more than 17 years. His company maintained the information systems for Tejarat (“Commerce”) Bank. According to his family, Kamran Ghaderi had provided Iranian banks with a major part of their digital security systems. His company worked closely with Sina Pardazesh, an Iranian software company run by Kamran’s brother Kambiz that sold advanced technology for digital signatures to countries including Jamaica, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and Bhutan.During all these years, the Austrian government demanded only one thing from Kamran Ghaderi’s wife Harika: silence. Now, seven months after the arrest of Massud Mossaheb, it is the Austrian foreign ministry that has broken the silence. The foreign ministry spokesman told Agence France-Presse that Alexander Schallenberg, the Austrian Foreign Minister, had written to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif about Mossaheb and the Austrian embassy in Tehran has been active on the case.

Massud Mossaheb was one of the oldest and, at the same time, little-known Iranian residents of Vienna. His family, however, is quite well known in Iran. His father Gholam Hossein Mosaheb was the author of the highly praised Persian Encyclopedia and introduced Iranians to aspects of modern mathematics. Shams ul-Molook Mosaheb, Gholam Hossein’s sister, was a poet, writer and translator and one of the first Iranian women to become a senator. Their father, Dr. Mohammad Ali Mosaheb, was a well-known literary figure and politician.

Massud Mossaheb left Iran for Austria in 1965, years before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Ten years later he completed his PhD in mechanical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and he was naturalized as an Austrian citizen in 1980. After the revolution he formed close ties with the embassy of the Islamic Republic in Vienna and for more than 20 years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, he worked with the Iranian airline industry, providing airlines with spare parts for passenger planes and communication equipment.

For a while, his commercial activities subsided. Mossaheb had close relations with Baghaollah Vossough, director of the Austrian firm Cerag International, which sold equipment to Iran’s oil industry. Vossough was murdered in July 2010; the Austrian police reported that he was killed by a convicted fraudster and drug dealer who was identified only as Samad A., and who turned himself in to the police after he shot Vossough. The motive behind the killing remains unknown but, according to a report published in the newspaper the Telegraph, intelligence experts said the death was linked to a dispute over how the company would be wound up as the European Union adopted sanctions that would ban much of Austria’s trade with Iran.A Western diplomat based in Vienna told the Telegraph: “Iran has used Vienna as one of the main bases for its front companies to export equipment that is dual-use and has been diverted to assist its nuclear program. Partners in these firms are feeling the pressure as they divide their assets.” And an Austrian official said Cerag was issued with a winding up order two years ago but the authorities had never moved to enforce it.

“It’s the typical Viennese thing of not looking too closely and allowing things to go on as long as Austria has nothing at stake,” another diplomat said. “Vienna is a weak link when it comes to sanctions.”

After the suspicious murder of Vossough by an Iranian, Massud Mossaheb laid low for a few months.

Earlier, in 1991, Mossaheb had founded the Iranian-Austrian Friendship Society with the help of Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock and his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Velayati. The society is one of a few Vienna-based institutions that has close relations with the Islamic Republic’s embassy in the city.

“The main objectives of the ÖIG [the Iranian-Austrian Friendship Society] are the promotion of bilateral relations between the Republic of Austria and the Islamic Republic of Iran in economic, social, cultural, humanitarian, scientific and sporting fields,” declares the official site of the society [German link]. “One focus is on developing economic relations between the two countries, with ÖIG acting in close cooperation with the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and the Tehran Foreign Trade Office. ÖIG has numerous contacts with Iranian authorities and can informally assist in initiating and maintaining contacts.”

“It is all the more amazing that Iran is targeting Massud Mossaheb of all people, a person who for a quarter century had committed himself to relations between Austria and Iran,” the Der Standard article says, According to the paper, at the time of his arrest, Mossaheb was accompanying a delegation representing Med Austron, a radiation therapy technology company jointly owned by Austria and Russia.

According to the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, the company had recently opened a branch near Tehran [German link]. Mossaheb’s associates in the Iranian-Austrian Friendship Society say that in recent years, at the request of the Islamic Republic, Mossaheb has been trying to expand the activities of the company in Iran, but he never gave them a clear account of what Med Austron was expected to do in the country.

“No formal charges have been brought against Mr. Mossaheb and the reason for his arrest is not known,” said the foreign ministry’s spokesman. But he is talking about the arrest seven months after it happened and, during this time, Vienna has hosted official negotiations between the Iranian foreign ministry and the representatives of the European Union at least twice. On June 25 and again on July 28, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was in Vienna to meet with the representatives of the remaining signatories to the nuclear agreement.

“The family has been in contact with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the last six months,” the Der Standard article reports. However, the ‘silent diplomacy’ has produced no results as of now.”

“Iran sabotages itself,” wrote Gudrun Harrer, Der Standard’s editor for the Middle East, who is a professor of political science at the University of Vienna and an expert in Middle Eastern nuclear affairs. “If you want to work with Iran, officially or unofficially, remember that Iran arrests dual nationals. The Iranian government ignores second citizenship. The simplest way for not putting your life at risk is not to travel to Iran at all.”

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In the course of a dispute at Berlin’s Tegel airport, a passenger at a check-in counter was allegedly insulted anti-Semitically by an employee. According to a police spokesman on Saturday, the woman had finally excluded the Spaniard, who lives in Berlin, from the flight in the morning. The 50-year-old, who according to police wanted to fly to the Spanish island of Menorca, is said to have been insulted by the woman in English and Arabic language.Further background information on the incident was not known at first.  Federal police reported the incident on the spot. Now the State Police Department of the State Criminal Police Office is investigating. It takes over cases in which a political motive is suspected or cannot be excluded. The airline in question could not initially be contacted by the press for a statement. 

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By Thomas Lifson

A lot of very powerful Democrats are breathing sighs of relief. Dead men tell no tales, and the man whose tales could sink the reputations of and potentially incarcerate a slew of the most important political figures in the US (and a member of the British Royal Family) will be making no deals with prosecutors implicating bigger fish.

The cynics who insisted that he would never live to bring down so many powerful people have been vindicated. Of course, we don’t know any details of his demise, so theoretically it is possible that he took his own life for purely personal psychological concerns.

But that theoretical possibility is not strengthened by this, from the New York Times’ first account:

Last month, a week after being denied bail, Mr. Epstein was found unconscious in his cell at the jail in Manhattan with marks on his neck, and prison officials were investigating the incident as a possible suicide attempt.

It was not immediately clear on Saturday whether the authorities had put in additional safeguards to watch him after the incident last month.

Let me translate: “not immediately clear” means that officials at the jail have not claimed the first thing that would come to mind if additional safeguards – which obviously were required — had been in place. If he had been on suicide watch, as ordinary prudence would require, it is highly unlikely that he could have successfully killed himself. There should not have been any materials for a self-created hanging in the cell of someone who had previously attempted suicide.

The death comes less than a day after a court unsealed a trove of over 2000 documents implicating even more powerful figures. Incuding this, via Mike Cernovich:

That’s certainly a coincidence, isn’t it? Over the decades there have been so many people in a position to harm Bill and Hillary Clinton that ahve come to an intimely end that the word “Arkancide” has been invented.

A question going forward: what will become of his estate? There will no doubt be litigation and court proceedings that will establish how much wealth he actually had. It would not surprise me if it turns out to be a lot less than many have guessed, as was the case when Robert Maxwell, the father of his sometimes associate and accused procuress Ghislaine Maxwell, and Armand Hammer, legendary oilman who got his start as an aoperative for Rusian communists raising monet by selling off the Czars’ art, each died.

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Yeah, right. On suicide watch.

How do we know it really was him? Did ‘they’ whisk him away to protect him or to protect those he would have named?

Was he Arkincided?

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Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died overnight in an apparent suicide, law enforcement sources told the Post Saturday. A gurney carrying a man who looked like Epstein was wheeled out of the Manhattan Correctional Center around 7:30 a.m. and headed to New York Downtown Hospital. A call for a reported cardiac arrest came in at 6:38 a.m., Fire Department sources said. Two weeks ago, Epstein, 66, was placed on suicide watch after he was found nearly unconscious in his cell with injuries to his neck. The multimillionaire financier was being held without bail pending trial on child sex-trafficking charges. Epstein was busted July 6 over the alleged sexual abuse of dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm, Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005. He pleaded not guilty and faced up to 45 years in prison. Thousands of documents unsealed Friday in connection with a defamation case against the perv’s alleged recruiter revealed dozens of high-profile names that a self-identified victim, Virginia Giuffre, said she was forced to perform sex acts with, from former Maine Sen. George Mitchell and ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, money manager Glenn Dubin and MIT professor Marvin Minksy.

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