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[Link] Trump Tried to Call a Jan. 6 Committee Witness and DOJ Has Been Notified
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
Former President Donald Trump called a witness to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, the committee’s top Republican said Tuesday—a potentially illegal act that the committee has shared with the Justice Department. Wyoming Rep.
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[Link] Ben Roberts-Smith to call ex-SAS member alleged to have committed war crime as his first reply witness in defamation trial
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A former Australian SAS soldier alleged by three newspapers to have ordered the execution of an unarmed elderly man in Afghanistan will be the first witness-in-reply called by Ben Roberts-Smith in his war crimes defamation trial.
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[Link] Witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies he is a ‘liar and a fantasist’
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A former SAS soldier who testified that Ben Roberts-Smith ordered him to stage a mock execution of a comrade during a training drill has defended himself in court against accusations he was a liar and fantasist who was trying to justify his own failures as a soldier.
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[Link] Witness tells court he killed a Taliban fighter credited to Ben Roberts-Smith in Victoria Cross award
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
A soldier who fought alongside Ben Roberts-Smith at the battle of Tizak where Roberts-Smith won his Victoria Cross has told the federal court he killed one of the Taliban machine gunners credited to Roberts-Smith on his official VC citation.
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[Link] Roberts-Smith pressured me to lie about his affair, estranged wife tells court
Read: 14/2/2022 www.smh.com.au
The estranged wife of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has told the Federal Court she discovered her husband was having an affair when his girlfriend turned up at the couple’s Sunshine Coast home with a black eye and told her she had been pregnant with his child.
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[Link] Oklahoma executes man for 2001 murders of two hotel workers
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the murders of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10.16am.
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[Link] Fundraiser for US man exonerated after 43 years in prison tops $1.4m
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
By mid-afternoon on Saturday, a fundraiser for a man who spent 43 years in prison before a judge in Missouri this week overturned his conviction in a triple murder had raised more than $1.4m.
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[Link] This Couple Survived the Unite the Right Car Attack. The Trauma Tore Them Apart.
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
On the day of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Marcus Martin wore his red-and-white Jordans.
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[Link] Father of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killer: ‘I Would Have Shot Him Myself’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Had Travis McMichael not shot Ahmaud Arbery in the chest twice with his shotgun and killed the 25-year-old Black man, Travis’ dad Gregory McMichael said he would have done it instead.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Dad Walked Out When Jury Was Shown Images of His Dead Son
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The first time photos of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal injuries were shown during the trial of the three white men accused of killing him, his father Marcus Arbery Sr. stood up and left the courtroom. “If you seen your kid get blown apart with a 12-gauge shotgun, what would you do?” Arbery Sr.
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[Link] Paramedic Shot by Rittenhouse Believed He ‘Was Going to Die’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The high-profile Rittenhouse trial has now entered its second week.
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[Link] Richard Spencer Held Parties in 'Fash Loft' For White Nationalists, Court Hears
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
It became known as “the fash loft”—and hosted as many as six parties for white nationalist influencers that summer. None of them were recorded. But many otherwise make unlikely bedfellows.
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[Link] Truck driver accused of spitting on and assaulting police at border checkpoint refused bail
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Brendan J Moore, 57, faced the Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with assaulting a police officer and another worker, and resisting police.
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[Link] Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
In an attempt to get ahead of reporting that will seemingly make Facebook—already reeling from weeks of revelations from a whistleblower—somehow look even worse, the company has adopted an increasingly popular strategy among some corporations: posting through it.
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[Link] ‘The court of God will be waiting for him’: Iraqis react to Colin Powell’s death
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
For many Iraqis, Colin Powell was the face of the US invasion which caused an estimated 200,000 deaths, unleashing nearly two decades of domestic chaos and precipitating chaos throughout the region.
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