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Politicians tell football star Ibrahimovic 'Leave, or shut up and play' after PSG captain describes France as 'sh*t'


RT
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:22 UTC
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International football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic: 'What is WRONG with France?'
National Front leader Marine Le Pen has called on Zlatan Ibrahimovic to leave France if he doesn't like it. The move follows the football star's angry remark about French match referees.

He was filmed making the comment on Sunday evening.

"In 15 years I've never seen a [good] referee in this shit country ... [they] don't even deserve PSG," Ibrahimovic said referring to French football team Paris Saint-Germain. "We're too good for all of you."

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Shooting in Copenhagen shopping center leaves 3 injured


RT
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:25 UTC
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Three people have been wounded in a Copenhagen shopping center shooting incident, according to Danish media quoting the police.
#breaking Vagthavende ved Københavns Politi bekræfter overfor TV 2, at der er affyret skud i shoppingcenteret FIELDS i København.

— TV 2 Breaking | LIVE (@tv2breaking) March 18, 2015
Local TV 2 spoke to a witness who said security forces were in the building, with weapons drawn. "The guards shouted at us to get to safety, because there was shooting," the witness said.

The shooting was reported to have happened in the shopping center's car park at around noon local time.

Eight people were responsible for the violence at the Fields shopping mall, and they appear to be "two groups who clashed," Michael Andersen of the Copenhagen police told the Rittzau news agency.

Fields is in the Danish capital's Amager district and is not only the largest shopping center in Denmark, but one of the biggest in Scandinavia.

Comment: This is the second active shooter in Copenhagen in the last 2 months:
  • More terrorism circus? Two dead, five injured in Copenhagen shootings
Is there a concerted effort to spread fear in Europe with these incidents?

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American who was tortured for 106 days struggles to prove FBI involvement


RT
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:15 UTC
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Yonas Fikre
A US citizen, who was put on a no-fly list, declared a threat to national security and tortured in an UAE prison after refusing to become an FBI informant, is having a hard time proving it happened at the behest of the US authorities, his lawyer told RT.

Yonas Fikre is an Eritrean born American citizen who immigrated as a refugee to the US when he was 13 from neighboring Sudan. He became a US citizen and in 2006 settled in Portland, Oregon. His problems began soon after 2010 when he went back to Khartoum, where he still had relatives, to start an electronics import business.

In Sudan he was summoned to the US Embassy on false pretenses and was told by two FBI agents from Oregon that they wanted to ask him a few questions about his mosque in Portland. When Fikre demanded a lawyer and hesitated to answer questions about people he had prayed at the mosque with but barely knew - the agents told him he was placed on a no-fly list. Although there was "absolutely no factual justification" for that, his lawyer, Thomas Nelson, told RT.

Fikre was told he would be taken off the list if he agreed to work for the FBI as an informant. He eventually agreed to answer their questions, but not work for the feds. A couple of weeks later, Fikre says he received a letter from one of the FBI agents, telling him threateningly: "While we hope to get your side of issues we keep hearing about, the choice is yours to make. The time to help yourself is now."


Comment: Welcome to the land of the free and home of the brave! Where being a Muslim and attending a mosque is good enough to be tortured for over 100 days and then released as though nothing happened.

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Mesa, Arizona multiple shootings: 1 killed, 5 injured


RT
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:11 UTC
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© Reuters/Shannon Stapleton
Police say they have captured the gunman responsible for shooting at least six people at multiple locations in Mesa, Arizona. One person died, and another is in critical condition. The suspect was captured in the Phoenix suburb.

There are at least four confirmed shooting scenes in Mesa, though there could be as many as five or six locations, Mesa Police Department Detective Estaban Florez told reporters. Mesa PD and the Arizona State University Police Department have said that the suspect was captured about one mile west southwest of the first scene without any shots fired.

Comment: Surprised the suspect is not dead.

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Letter sent to White House tests positive for cyanide


RT
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:52 UTC
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© Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
A suspicious envelope received by the White House earlier this week has tested positive for cyanide, the US Secret Service has confirmed, adding that another test will be conducted to confirm the results.

"On Monday 3/16/15, an envelope was received at the White House Mail Screening Facility. Initial Biological testing was negative; however, on 03/17/15, the chemical testing returned a presumptive positive for cyanide," Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said in a statement. "The sample was transported to another facility to confirm the results."

According to US Environmental Protection Agency cyanide, which is used in a number of industries, is "extremely" toxic to humans.

"Chronic (long-term) inhalation exposure of humans to cyanide results primarily in effects on the central nervous system (CNS)," the EPA warns.

Other effects include cardiovascular and respiratory, as well as an enlarged thyroid gland, and irritation to the eyes and skin.
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NYPD cops alter Wikipedia entries on police murders; no punishment will be pursued


RT
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:34 UTC
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© Reuters/Mike Segar
Two veteran New York City cops discovered to have altered Wikipedia entries related to high-profile police brutality cases from police headquarters won't be punished, according to the commissioner.

New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton made the announcement Monday and said the two officers - whose names will not be released - do not currently work in the police headquarters, and are assigned to two different units.

"Two officers, who have been identified, were using department equipment to access Wikipedia and make entries," NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters. "I don't anticipate any punishment, quite frankly."
Bill Bratton: No penalty for NYPD cops who edited Wikipedia page about #EricGarnerhttp://t.co/e87Or9ZjZcpic.twitter.com/izh2aa0CNY

— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) March 17, 2015

Comment: Comment: " NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters. "I don't anticipate any punishment, quite frankly."" Of course not. If officers can get away with cold-blooded murder without so much as a slap on the wrist they can surely get away with attempts to re-write history.

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Another Western false flag? At least 20 dead as gunmen open fire at Tunisian museum

Tarek Amara
Yahoo
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 17:33 UTC
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Gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians on Wednesday in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that has largely escaped the region's "Arab Spring" turmoil.

Visitors from Italy, Germany, Poland and Spain were among the dead in the noon assault on the Bardo museum near parliament in central Tunis, Prime Minister Habib Essid said.

Security forces stormed the former palace around two hours later, killed two militants and freed other tourists held hostage inside, a government spokesman said. One policeman was killed in the police operation.

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Islamic State militants, who have become particularly active in neighboring Libya, were behind the attack. "The EU is determined to mobilize all the tools it has to fully support Tunisia in the fight against terrorism," she added.

Prime Minister Essid declared in a national address:

"All Tunisians should be united after this attack which was aimed at destroying the Tunisian economy."
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Killer cops on the loose in Madison, Wisconsin

Paul Gottinger
CounterPunch
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 16:27 UTC
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Tony Robinson
Last Saturday over 1,000 people gathered for the funeral of Tony Robinson on Madison's East side. Robinson, an unarmed, biracial, teenager was shot and killed on March 6 by Madison police officer Matt Kenny. Officer Kenny shot Robinson in the head and multiple times in the torso after he responded to a call that Robinson was acting "erratically".

According to friends of Robinson, he was tripping on hallucinogenic drugs the night he was shot. One of the calls to the police came from friends wanting help for Robinson.

Unfortunately, we don't live in a world where the police exist to offer help. And officer Kenny is no exception. He responded to a teen in need of help with the cold compassion of multiple gunshots. Moreover, Kenny's murder of Robinson was not his first.

In 2007 Kenny shot and killed a drunk man holding a pellet gun. His punishment? He earned the Medal of Valor, the department's highest honor.

Comment: America has become a police state where the cops shoot first and ask questions later. Will the Black Lives Matter protests have the strength to put this monster back into its cage or has the psychopathic devolution of the US gone too far to be stopped?

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Right-wing Fox News slams Republicans for sending letter to Iran

David Edwards
Raw Story
Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:47 UTC
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Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Sunday blasted Republican senators for sending a "horrific" letter to Iran, and attempting an "end run" around the president.

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, told an ABC News panel that the 46 senators who joined Sen. Tom Cotton's (R-AR) letter undermine President Barack Obama's negotiations with Iran had made a "horrendous" mistake.

"If you read the text of the letter, it is the most condescending, infantile text assuming that the leaders of Iran — whatever you may think of them, and there's a lot on the record to think terribly of them — that somehow, that they have no idea what the American system is all about," Remnick explained. "It's an absurd comical exercise."

Susteren agreed: "I think that letter was horrific."

"It end runs the president, which I think is terrible," she said. "I think they could have achieved the same goal without sending a letter becoming pen pals with the leadership of Iran."

The Fox News host also condemned President Obama for trying to "end run the United States Senate and not calling this a treaty."

Watch the video below from ABC's This Week, broadcast March 15, 2015.


Comment: It's pretty funny to see Fox News slamming Republicans for anything. They are usually working together to spread neocon policy, but now it looks like there might be a break in the ranks.

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Phony revolution coming soon? New Black Panther party suggests arming every black individual in the U.S.


RT
Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:41 UTC
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Around 40 New Black Panther Party members took to the streets of Austin, Texas to condemn recent killings of black civilians. Armed with high caliber weapons, they said they aimed to patrol their own communities and encourage the taking up of arms.

The protest in the state capital of Texas on Monday coincided with the SXSW (South by Southwest) festival, which celebrates music and film. However the heavily-armed New Black Panther members, who were carrying Kalashnikov rifles and AR-15's caught the attention of many, as they chanted songs in their display of force.

Showing off their weapons was not the main reason for them marching along the streets. The movement was protesting the deaths of a number of unarmed black people, such as teenager Michael Brown and Eric Garner, whom they believe were the results of police brutality.

"We are here to show support for the families and the victims who got murdered throughout the United States," said New Black Panther Party member, Darren X, who was speaking to Ruptly video news agency.

The deaths of Brown and Garner caused mass protests across the US, while the fact that no police officer was charged in either instance has only increased the feeling amongst the black community that they are being victimized.

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