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Robot

Dallas shooting: Law enforcement's use of vehicle based IED to kill suspect raises a few questions

RC-VBIED
The future of "law enforcement" in the US?
Last nights shooting and killing of several policemen in Dallas, Texas is still somewhat mysterious. At one point the Dallas police chief asserted that four attackers were working together with rifles and triangulating themselves in positions for the attack. Two of them were reported as snipers on roof. This led me to estimate that this was probably some team-trained (supremacist) militia trying to instigate a civil war.

Current status is that one man alone was responsible. An army veteran who was, according to this video, trained in infantry combat. Three other persons are in custody but possibly not related to the incident.

What explain the far diverging situation reports by the Dallas Chief?

The single identified shooter was eventually trapped and the police negotiated with him. Negotiations broke off, according to the police, and the police used a remote controlled "robot" to deliver a bomb next to the trapped shooter where it was then exploded. The suspect was killed by the explosion.


Comment: How convenient.


Comment: Has the US just entered a whole new phase in its war of terror?

See also: Freedom loses again: How the Dallas attacks validate the police state


Hearts

Seattle to bring free mobile medical services to homeless individuals

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Kadee Ingram holds her son at a Tent City outside Seattle.
An RV will give homeless residents access to a physician, a nurse, a mental health case manager and a chemical dependency professional.

A medical clinic on wheels is driving free health services right up to those who need them most.

Seattle just unveiled a new RV bringing primary care and mental health services to homeless individuals, at no cost to them, according to KGW. Mayor Ed Murray called it one of many solutions to tackle the problem of homelessness.

"As we continue to address the city's homelessness crisis, we know there is not one answer, but many as we try to help those who are most vulnerable," the mayor said in a statement, according to Seattle Times. "This mobile medical van will enable us to deliver critical health care to those in need and serve as an entry point to long-term support services and permanent housing."

About one in five homeless people has a chronic substance use disorder, and a similar percentage experiences mental health issues, according to the U.S. Department of Health.

Comment: The homeless population has changed in recent years. The elderly and those with disabilities and chronic illnesses are now finding themselves on the streets and they face an uphill battle getting medical care. They may qualify for public insurance, but they often aren't able to get to a clinic or to contact a health provider. Others prioritize obtaining food and shelter or don't seek health care because of shame around being homeless or fear of how health care providers will treat them. Kudos to Seattle for doing something positive to assist these vulnerable individuals, in contrast to heartless cities where the homeless are treated despicably.


Attention

Five years of independence amid economic collapse and suffering in South Sudan

South Sudan Government soldiers
© AP Photo/ Jason Patinkin
A crashing economy and continued fighting threaten the future of South Sudan and its people, Oxfam had warned ahead of the fifth anniversary of the country's independence on July 9.

As South Sudan draws near five years of independence, its people face a crashing economy that is impacting the already fragile peace agreement and is having devastating effects causing ongoing fighting and displacement.

Snakes in Suits

Ex-Fox News host Gretchen Carlson accuses CEO of 'severe' sexual harassment

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© Fred Prouser, Noam Galai (AFP) / ReutersFox News CEO Roger Ailes is being sued by Gretchen Carlson
Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has accused the company's chief executive Roger Ailes of sexual harassment and retaliation, saying she was penalized after refusing to sleep with Ailes and reporting "disparaging treatment in the newsroom."

The complaint was filed at the Superior Court of New Jersey in Bergen County on Wednesday, USA Today confirmed. Neither Fox News nor Carlson have made any further comments about it, however.

"Ailes has unlawfully retaliated against Carlson and sabotaged her career because she refused his sexual advances and complained about severe and pervasive sexual harassment," the complaint says. "When Carlson met with Ailes to discuss the discriminatory treatment to which she was being subjected, Ailes stated: 'I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago and then you'd be good and better and I'd be good and better,' adding that 'sometimes problems are easier to solve' that way."


Comment: 'sometimes problems are easier to solve' that way.' = Psychopathic logic


Before becoming CEO of Fox News in 1996, Ailes worked as media consultant to three Republican presidents: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Comment: This man is clearly a dangerous snake in a suit that appears to lack empathy and displays an obvious disregard for the consequences of his behavior, for example when he reportedly urged an employee to lie to the police, news reporters were left stunned 'not because they couldn't believe Ailes would do such a thing. Instead, they were shocked Ailes left himself so open, so vulnerable'

To get an idea of Ailes' character and how Fox news started out you may want to read this article. Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News


Star of David

Southern West Bank citizens in limbo due to Israeli siege

Entrance to Bani Na'im, Israel west bank
© Allison DegerEntrance to Bani Na'im, cordoned of by Israeli forces. Bani Na'im is the hometown of a Palestinian teen who killed a 13-year old Israeli on Thursday.
Days away from the Eid holiday Shafooq Baloot, 25, does not know how or when she will do her annual clothes shopping. "We can't go everywhere whenever we would like," the English teacher told me. She lives in town of Bani Na'im which is one of many towns across the West Bank that has been under Israeli closure for nearly a week.

The Israeli army shut the main entrance to her town with cement blocks and an earth mound after a teen from her town killed a 13-year old Israeli in a nearby settlement last Thursday.

"Sure the stores have stuff here, but in Hebron it's cheaper," said Baloot. She hoped to buy a new wardrobe during the seasonal sales that accompany the Muslim religious month of Ramadan.

Over the weekend Israeli forces barricaded at least 20 more villages in the Hebron area, along with the southern entrance to the city of Hebron itself — a rare move generally reserved for manhunts.

Health

Venezuelan doctors go on hunger strike to protest poor hospital conditions, lack of supplies

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© REUTERS/Marco BelloPatients lie on beds at the Universitary Hospital in Merida, Venezuela June 17, 2016.
A dozen doctors hold a hunger strike in the corridors of an Andean city hospital. In another provincial city, hundreds of protesting medics suspend appointments.

In the capital, staff from a pediatric hospital wave placards at the entrance to a hospital pleading for aid.

Not usually active in politics, many of the OPEC nation's 40,000 doctors are becoming increasingly militant over drastic shortages of medicines, equipment and personnel amid a punishing economic crisis.

With eight out of 10 medicines now scarce, according to the main pharmacy group, protesting doctors are demanding that President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government declare a national health crisis and allow foreign humanitarian aid.

Pistol

Freedom loses again: How the Dallas attacks validate the police state

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Late Thursday night, during an entirely peaceful protest, murderers opened fire on crowds of police officers. Five Dallas cops were tragically killed and six others injured.

These apparently unprovoked attacks on individuals who were not directly involved in threatening the life of the shooters are a hindrance to the progression of liberty and police accountability.

Random acts of violence will only serve to undo what little progress those of us in the peaceful movement have accomplished and, in fact, will reverse it and prevent any future progress.

Comment: Point taken. Though it begs the question: Who was really behind the Dallas sniper attacks? Was it non-affiliated lone gunmen? Or this Black Power Political Organization conducting themselves Operation Gladio-style and organized for the very purpose of fomenting unrest so the state can crack down even further on civil liberties?

As with all attacks, one must ask: Who benefits?


Bulb

Destroy Israeli homes as well: Lawyer calls for equal punishment of Israelis who incite violence against Palestinians

palestinian homes destroyed
© Suhaib Salem / Reuters
The lawyer for the family of the Palestinian teenager whose 2014 murder sparked a new spike in settlement violence has called on Israel to treat his killers the same way it does Palestinian militants - which is to destroy their homes.

The lawyer, Mohannad Jubara, believes it is a fitting and equal punishment for the three Israeli men who abducted 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir in 2014, and burned him to death. The attackers' motives were allegedly revenge for the killing of three Israeli teens by Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Israel is known for destroying the homes of Palestinian militants as a tactic aimed at deterring future attacks. Palestinians believe the practice amounts to collective punishment.

Jubara launched his appeal to the Supreme Court, saying Abu Khdeir's killers should face the same fate.

Cult

Former congressman Joe Walsh: "Now it's war - watch out Obama & BlackLivesMatter punks"

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© Ron Jenkins / AFPDallas police officers escort a woman near the scene where eleven Dallas police officers were shot and five have now died on July 7, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.
As the US finds itself in the grip of heightened racial tensions, former Illinois Republican Congressman Joe Walsh took to Twitter to tell President Obama the chaos unfolding in Dallas is "now a war."

This happened late Thursday, as what was initially thought to be two shooters - later determined to be four - engaged nearly a dozen police officers in combat. It was a massacre that left five police officers dead and six injured. Three of the injured are in a critical condition, with two more in surgery.

This followed two separate police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, in which both African-Americans were later judged not to have been posing any threat.

Comment: At this point, the police as an institution don't face many options. Death and thug culture are so rampant within police departments all over the United States that the only solution is to completely revamp the system from the bottom up. Since that is unlikely to happen, and in the face of increasing public outrage at the daily murder of innocent civilians by trigger-happy apes in uniform, the only viable option police have is a 'war', as Walsh tweets, in which the police are justified in committing violence in the streets in self-defense. Randomly killing cops in the street serves no strategic purpose, which implies that the people who committed these killings are either stupid or agents provocateur. James Corbett reports:




Hiliter

U.S. Marine to use Clinton's non-indictment as defense in classified email case

Major Jason Brezler
© whatyouthoughtiwentaway.wordpress.comMarine Corps Reserve Maj. Jason Brezler
A Marine Corps officer who is facing discharge for the mishandling of sensitive information is demanding the same treatment that Hillary Clinton received when the FBI chose not to indict her over her storage of classified emails.

Maj. Jason Brezler has been locked in a battle with the Marine Corps since he used an unclassified Yahoo email account to send a classified message warning fellow service members of a potentially corrupt Afghan police chief in July 2012.

Seventeen days after that email was sent, a servant of that police chief killed three Marines and severely wounded a fourth when he opened fire with an assault rifle.

Brezler was punished with a potentially career-ending fitness report for sending the warning over improper channels, and brought a lawsuit challenging that finding in December 2014. The case is still tied up in federal court.

Michael J. Bowe, one of Brezler's attorneys, says that his client received "completely opposite finding ... involving infinitely less sensitive and limited information," compared to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Washington Post reported.