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Baton Rouge: 3 officers shot dead, 4 others injured

Bart Jansen
USA Today
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:17 UTC
baton rouge shooting
© Mike Kunzelman, AP
Authorities talk to the driver of a car near an area where several officers were shot while on duty less than a mile from police headquarters on July 17, 2016.
Three police officers have been shot dead in Baton Rouge, La., and others may have been wounded, authorities said Sunday.

The three officers were shot near the department headquarters, Baton Route Mayor Kip Holden told MSNBC. At least four others were injured in the shooting, he said.

"They are investigating," he said. "Right now we are trying to get our arms around everything."

Two Baton Rouge police officers and one East Baton Rouge sheriff's deputy are dead, according to WBRZ-TV's Michael Vinsanau.

The gunman was shot, a Louisiana State Police spokesman said, but his condition was not immediately clear.
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As punishment, parents leave 3 children under age 7 in California desert without water, shoes

Colin Atagi and Denise Goolsby
The Desert Sun
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:03 UTC
29 Palms desert
© Denise Goolsby/The Desert Sun
Authorities found three children wandering this Twentynine Palms desert without shoes or water Wednesday. They say the children were being punished by their mother and her boyfriend.
A mother and her boyfriend were arrested after they punished her three young children by leaving them in the desert in Twentynine Palms in temperatures just shy of 100 degrees on Wednesday, sheriff's officials said.

The children -- a 7-year-old girl, 6-year-old boy and a 5-year-old boy -- were discovered about 11:20 a.m. near the 74-000 block of Samarkand Drive, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Their parents were "down the road from the children," sheriff's spokeswoman Cynthia Bachman said.

Officials haven't determined why the children were being punished, but they did not need medical treatment after they were found.

They had been in the desert for about 45 minutes without any shoes or water before a local resident alerted authorities. At the time, temperatures were about 95-100 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

"The temperature was going up over the course of that hour," said Todd Lericos, a meteorologist. Temperatures topped off at 104 degrees and there was no wind to help cool the area, he said.
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Pistol

Florida teens, mistaken for thieves, shot at playing Pokémon Go

Christal Hayes
Orlando Sentinel
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 15:39 UTC
Pokemon go app picture
Two teens looking for Pokemon were mistaken as thieves looking for a house to rob and ended up getting shot at on Saturday.

A man was sleeping in his Palm Coast area home about 1:30 a.m. when a loud noise woke him up. The 37-year-old looked outside and spotted a white car parked in the road outside his Primrose Lane house, said Flagler County Sheriff's Office Jim Troiano.

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Green Light

French PM: Nice truck attacker was radicalized "very quickly", 2 more arrested in connection with attack


RT
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:06 UTC
Truck attack in Nice France
© CNN
The driver who killed at least 84 people in Nice had recently been radicalized, according to French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who says the attack was of an "Islamist nature." Meanwhile, two more people have been arrested in connection with the tragedy.

"The investigation will establish the facts, but we know now that the killer was radicalized very quickly," Valls said in remarks published on Sunday, Reuters reports.


Comment: Translation: "There was no indication in the years, months, and weeks leading up to the attacks suggesting any previous radicalization. But all terror attacks come from radicalized Muslims. Therefore, Bouhlel must have been radicalized 'very quickly', i.e., pretty much the instant he decided to carry out the attack."


"The claim on Saturday morning by Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] and the fast radicalization of the killer confirm the Islamist nature of this attack," the Prime Minister stated.


Comment: Weak. Anyone can claim responsibility for anything; confessions are not necessarily indications of guilt, obviously. And the evidence of his "fast radicalization" has yet to be subjected to close scrutiny. Valls is blowing hot air at this time.


A man and woman were arrested in Nice on Sunday for possible involvement, putting the total number of people detained in connection with the truck attack at seven, news agencies report, citing judiciary sources. Five of those previously detained remain in custody.
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People

London sees mass anti-Tory, anti-austerity and anti-racism protest


RT
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:38 UTC
People's Assembly protest march in central London
© Paul Hackett / Reuters
Several thousand protesters demonstrated in London on Saturday against austerity, racism and the new Tory government. The opposition rally was the biggest major protest since the June 23 Brexit referendum.

Central London saw more than 10,000 anti-Tory campaigners on the streets and Black Lives Matter activists.

Protesters made their way down Piccadilly Circus, Marble Arch and Hyde Park.

Crowds of people were demanding that new Prime Minister Theresa May resign.
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Dollars

Nice truck attacker: History of mental illness, psychiatric drugs, violence - sent unusually large amount of money to family in weeks before attack


RT
Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:47 UTC
bouhlel
© French police source / AFP
This image obtained by AFP on July 15, 2016 from a French police source shows a reproduction of the residence permit of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the man who rammed his truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice on July 14
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel had a long history of violence and mental illness, his family back in his homeland of Tunisia said, while insisting he showed no obvious signs of radicalization prior to Thursday's attack that left at least 84 people dead.

"My brother had psychological problems, and we have given the police documents showing that he had been seeing psychologists for several years," Rabeb Bouhlel, his sister, told Reuters.

The 31-year-old Lahouaiej Bouhlel left Tunisia for France back in 2005, and did not keep in regular contact with his family, who live in modest accommodations in the village Msaken outside Sousse, a coastal resort that has also been targeted by an Islamist attack.

His family, which has literally chased away the media camped outside their house on several occasions, have refused to acknowledge that Lahouaiej Bouhlel was a terrorist.

Comment: So a violent, mentally ill, unreligious, low-paid man suddenly and mysteriously comes into a fortune of cash, which he sends to his family. Then, next thing you know, he is plowing through people a crowded seat, after which he is shot dead by police. Clearly there is more to this story. Where did he get that money?!

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Snakes in Suits

Fake CIA agent and FOX News 'terror expert' sentenced to prison for lying to the public for years


The Free Thought Project
Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:32 UTC
Wayne Simmons
A man who falsely claimed for decades to be a CIA agent and worked as the FOX News "Terror Expert" has now been sentenced to 33 months in prison, according to prosecutors, as cited by Reuters.

According to a U.S. District Attorney's Office statement, Wayne Shelby Simmons of Annapolis, Maryland, was sentenced in a U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.

"Wayne Simmons is a fraud," U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Maryland, Dana Boente, flatly stated. "Simmons has no military or intelligence background, or any skills relevant to the positions he attained through his fraud."

U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis III also ordered Simmons to serve three years of supervised release, pay restitution, and to forfeit two firearms and $176,000 in criminal proceeds.
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Attention

Teens get lost in cave, another struck by motorcycle while playing Pokemon Go

Leon Watson
The Telegraph
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:17 UTC
Pokemon Go
© AP photo/Richard Vogel
Specialist mine rescue teams were scrambled after four teenagers got lost in a cave while hunting for Pokémon.

The group headed into the underground network of tunnels to play Pokémon Go, the location-based augmented reality mobile phone game.

But they lost their way in Boxfields Caves, near Corsham, Wiltshire, and were forced to wander around until they found enough signal to call 999.

Three fire crews and two rope units enlisted the help of a key holder - who has access to a locked part of the cave - to help find the children and lead them to safety on Thursday evening.

Comment: The 'Pokémon Go' app is doing the CIA's dirty work

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Eye 2

Police free dozens held as slaves in Berevoesti, Romania: Mayor calls captors "soulless people"


Yahoo News
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Human slavery
Berevoesti (Romania) - Romanian authorities remanded 38 people in custody on Thursday suspected of holding dozens of vulnerable young men and boys like slaves, chaining them up and forcing them to fight, authorities said.

They were arrested followed large-scale police raids on Wednesday in Berevoesti, 170 kilometres (105 miles) north of Bucharest, when five people including two boys aged 10 and 12 were freed.

The captives were "attached with chains and straps... beaten (and) humiliated", starved of food and fed on scraps, prosecutors from the DIICOT organised crime investigation unit said.

They were "left fully naked, cold and hot water being thrown alternatively on them. Their hands and feet were tied and they were told to eat off the ground or to fight each other to amuse the suspects," they said.

Comment: We call these slavers psychopaths.

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Pistol

Never call the police: Cops kill troubled teen whose father called for help because his son was 'freaking out'

Kory Watkins
The Free Though Project
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Devin Scott
If you knew the police were going to kill your child, would you call them?

On June 19 at 8:20 p.m., Gary Christian called local police on his son for "freaking out." Little did he know when they showed up, police would kill him.

What happened to negotiating? Police should be diffusers of situations rather than escalators. Our public servants should be willing to spend hours negotiating to save any life whatsoever.

Devin Scott, who was only 20 years young, could have been talked to and given a chance. It's situations like these where even though he had a bad history and he had a knife, we must set a higher standard for saving a human life at all cost.

The Kingman Police Department investigated the officer-involved shooting and turned their investigation over to the Mohave County Attorney's Office. They claim Scott was advancing on him aggressively, but if you watch the video below, police are the ones who are advancing.

All of the officers have been cleared following the investigation.

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