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SOTT Focus: Las Vegas Terror Attack: Clear Evidence of Multiple Shooters at Multiple Hotels

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:15 UTC
vegas strip active shooter
© APPeople flee from the sound of gunfire on a walkway over the Las Vegas Strip on October 1st 2017, as active shooters target multiple resorts up to 2km north of the Mandalay Bay
Three weeks on and there's still no proper account of what happened on the Las Vegas Strip on the night of October 1st 2017. The official investigation and mainstream media coverage has focused on the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Festival venue, apparently conducted exclusively by 64-year-old gambler Stephen Paddock from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino resort, providing the public with a nonsensical timeline and a highly suspicious explanation of events as detailed by Joe Quinn in this article.

Since then, survivors from among the 22,000 people in attendance at the venue, along with other guests, residents and employees present on the Strip that night, have begun speaking out about what they saw and heard and to say their statements diverge from the official narrative would be a massive understatement.

Comparing police reports on published audio recordings of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department (LVMPD) scanner with videos taken by multiple eyewitnesses, along with eyewitness statements made to the media on the night, and in published testimonies they have been making since then, a picture emerges of terror and chaos deliberately spread over a much larger area than just the venue, a picture that casts further doubt on the official story of a lone gunman.

Comment: See also:

Serious Problems With Official Las Vegas Massacre Narrative

The Las Vegas Massacre and Occam's Razor

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SOTT Focus: Serious Problems With Official Las Vegas Massacre Narrative

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 23:04 UTC
mandalay bay
On Monday October 9th, Las Vegas Police revised the date on which they believe Stephen Paddock checked in to the Mandalay Bay - saying it was likely Sept. 25th, and not the 28th as previously thought. Nicole Rapp, whose mother was trampled during the massacre, spoke to the Associated Press on Tuesday 10th saying: "It's very confusing to me that they are just discovering this a week later. How did we not know this before? It's traumatic for the victims and their families not to be sure of what happened".

Contrary to repeated claims by government that questioning the official narrative of mass casualty incidents "hurts the families of the victims", it is implausible half stories pandered as truth that really hurt the victims. The real truth - a narrative that makes sense and maps to reality - on the other hand, is the one thing that can bring lasting peace to victims of such attacks.

The apparent cluelessness of the police and FBI about when Paddock checked in to the hotel room is just one of many far more serious problems with the entire narrative of what happened on the night of October 1st in Las Vegas. Furthermore, all of these problems are easily discernible by anyone with a functioning BS meter. The following describes the most clear-cut examples.

Comment: See also:

Las Vegas Terror Attack: Clear Evidence of Multiple Shooters at Multiple Hotels

The Las Vegas Massacre and Occam's Razor

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Hourglass

Former PM Matteo Renzi warns Italy is on the brink of becoming 'ungovernable' as anti-Europe feeling rises

Tom Parfitt
Express
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:36 UTC
Matteo Renzi
© GETTYItaly is on the brink of becoming 'ungovernable', Renzi claims
Italy is on the brink of becoming "ungovernable" due to the rise of Eurosceptic parties, ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said.

The Democratic Party (PD) secretary yesterday blasted the growth of right-wing populism in Italy, branding it "very dangerous".

Mr Renzi, who quit as PM last year after losing a referendum on constitutional reform, admitted: "Ungovernability in Italy is a great risk.

"That is why I am so disgusted to have lost the referendum. We would have ended this situation."
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Trump has bowed to the Neocons and Netanyahu

Gareth Porter
Consortium News
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 17:38 UTC
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© White HouseNetanyau smirks as Trump toes the Zionist line: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at joint press conference on Feb. 15. 2017.
Rather than expand U.S. exports to Iran - and create more American jobs - President Trump fell in line behind Israel's P.M. Netanyahu, decertifying the Iran-nuclear deal and risking more war, as Gareth Porter explains at The American Conservative.

President Donald Trump's new Iran policy clearly represents a dangerous rejection of diplomacy in favor of confrontation. But it's more than that: It's a major shift toward a much closer alignment of U.S. policy with that of the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Whether explicitly or not, Trump's vow to work with Congress to renegotiate the Iran nuclear agreement, and his explicit threat to withdraw from the deal if no renegotiation takes place, appear to be satisfying the hardline demands Netanyahu has made of Washington's policy toward Tehran.
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Snakes in Suits

FBI director: Agency failed to hack into nearly 7,000 encrypted devices


RT
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:02 UTC
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© Christian Ohde / Global Look Press
Federal agents failed to hack into 6,900 mobile devices protected by encryption, the FBI director told a police chiefs' conference, amid heated debate over privacy and government control over cyberspace.

The FBI was unable to retrieve content from more than 6,900 mobile devices, agency director Christopher Wray said on Monday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia. This is more than half of the mobile devices the FBI tried to access in less than a year.

"To put it mildly, this is a huge, huge problem," Wray said. "It impacts investigations across the board - narcotics, human trafficking, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, gangs, organized crime, child exploitation."
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The U.S. military junta expands its claim to power


Moon of Alabama
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 17:19 UTC
Trump Generals and advisers
In an advertising campaign in 2008 the U.S. Air Force declared itself to be "Above All". The slogan and symbol of the campaign was similar to the German "Deutschland Über Alles" campaign of 1933. It was a sign of things to come.

On Thursday Masha Gessen watched the press briefing of White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly and concluded:
The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments.
  1. Those who criticize the President don't know what they're talking about because they haven't served in the military. ...
  2. The President did the right thing because he did exactly what his general told him to do. ...
  3. Communication between the President and a military widow is no one's business but theirs. ...
  4. Citizens are ranked based on their proximity to dying for their country. ...
Gessen is late. The coup happened months ago. A military junta is in strong control of White House polices. It is now widening its claim to power.

All along Trump has been the candidate of the military. The other two power centers of the power triangle, the corporate and the executive government (CIA), had gone for Clinton. The Pentagon's proxy defeated the CIA proxy. (Last months' fight over Raqqa was similar - with a similar outcome.)
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Mueller reportedly turning his attention to investigating Democrat lobbyist Tony Podesta

Tom Winter, Julia Ainsley
NBC News
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:52 UTC
John/Tony Podesta
Tony Podesta and the Podesta Group are now the subjects of a federal investigation being led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, three sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News.

The probe of Podesta and his Democratic-leaning lobbying firm grew out of Mueller's inquiry into the finances of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to the sources. As special counsel, Mueller has been tasked with investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Manafort had organized a public relations campaign for a non-profit called the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU). Podesta's company was one of many firms that worked on the campaign, which promoted Ukraine's image in the West.

The sources said the investigation into Podesta and his company began as more of a fact-finding mission about the ECMU and Manafort's role in the campaign, but has now morphed into a criminal inquiry into whether the firm violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, known as FARA.

Comment: From what we can know about Mueller's investigation so far, what his team has found is a far cry from the baseless, over-the-top allegations paraded by the media for months. Where's the secret deals with Putin underlings? Where's the "KGB"? Where's the grand Putin-Trump conspiracy? Can we have at least one Russian troll? Guess not.

Tony Podesta was also paid $170k over six months to represent Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, seeking to end U.S. sanctions against it. John is tied up in this stuff too:
After Russia took control of the Uranium, the Podesta Group received $180,000 to lobby for Uranium One during the same period that the Clinton Foundation was receiving millions from U1 interests, and after Russia took majority ownership in the "20 percent" deal (source - you have to add up the years).

While NBC reports that Hillary Clinton's campaign manager and presumed Secretary of State John Podesta is not currently affiliated with the Podesta group and not part of Mueller's investigation, it should be noted that he sat on the board of Massachusetts energy company called Joule Unlimited, along with senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and Russian oligarch Ruben Vardanyan - who was appointed by Vladimir Putin to the Russian economic council.

Two months after Podesta joined the board, Joule managed to raise $35 million from Putin's Kremlin-backed investment fund Rusnano.

Not only did John Podesta fail to properly disclose this relationship before joining the Clinton Campaign, he transferred 75,000 shares of Joule to his daughter through a shell company using her address.


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'Interference': Baghdad rejects Tillerson's call for Iran-backed militias to 'go home'


RT
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:57 UTC
Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces
© ReutersShi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces and Iraqi army members gather on the outskirts of Hawija
In a tight-lipped statement, Baghdad rejected a call by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for Iran-backed Shia militias to "go home" after the demise of Islamic State in Iraq.

Earlier on Sunday, Rex Tillerson said at a rare meeting with top Iraqi and Saudi Arabian officials that Iraq's Shiite militias - also known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) - and their Iranian advisers need to leave Iraq as the struggle against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) is nearing an end.

But Baghdad seems reluctant to go along with Washington's request, judging by a polite but robust remark made on Monday by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office.

Comment: See also: 'Stop fighting ISIS, just go home': Tillerson urges Iran-backed militias to leave Iraq

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Arrow Down

Spanish FM attempts to downplay police violence against Catalonia, claiming it was limited, pictures were 'faked'


RT
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:46 UTC
spanish police violence catalonia
© Pau Barrena / AFPSpanish police officers drag a man as they try to disperse voters arriving to a polling station in Barcelona, on October 1, 2017
Spanish police used only "limited force" against Catalonians during the October 1 independence referendum, Spanish Foreign Minister said in an interview with BBC, claiming that many pictures showing police violence were "fake."

"I don't think there [was] any brutal situation," Alfonso Dastis told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, speaking about clashes between police and Catalans on the day of the vote.

"Many of those pictures [showing police violence] have been proven to be fake," Dastis said, "If there was a use of force, it was a limited one."

Comment: Catalonians strongly disagree with Madrid's idea of "prudent, appropriate and proportionate use of force": 700k protest police violence in Barcelona, Catalonia stages general strike

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Erdogan chastises U.S. as undemocratic over indictment against his security detail

Dirimcan Barut and Tulay Karadeniz
Reuters / Yahoo News
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 16:34 UTC
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© REUTERS/ Kevin Lamarque
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan showed no retreat from a diplomatic row with the United States on Saturday, castigating Washington for what he said an "undemocratic" indictment against his security detail.

His comments may further dash hopes of a quick resolution to an on-going diplomatic crisis between the NATO allies. Both Ankara and Washington have cut back issuing visas to each other's citizens as ties have worsened.

"They say the United States is the cradle of democracy. This can't be true. This can't be democracy," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul.

"If arrest warrants are issued against my bodyguards in absentia ... in the United States, where I went upon invitation, excuse me but I will not say this is a civilized country."

A U.S. grand jury in August indicted 15 Turkish security officials over a brawl between protesters and Erdogan's security personnel during the Turkish president's visit to Washington in May. Erdogan has said the indictment was not binding for Ankara.
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