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DNC staffer in charge of polling and "voter expansion data" murdered in Washington

Melissa Dykes
Activist Post
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Seth Rich
Hillary has been in the hot seat, but she escaped unscathed.

But what is really going on behind the scenes? Is something big going down inside the DNC?

A high-level Democratic National Committee staff member, Seth Rich, was gunned down by unknown assailants near his home in Washington, D.C. while reportedly walking home at 4 a.m.

As the Washington Post noted:

Comment: Suspicious? Probably! Consider this:

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The me, me POTUS: Obama refers to himself 45 times during speech at Dallas memorial service for slain police officers

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
Obama Dallas Memorial speech
President Obama referred to himself 45 times in this speech at the memorial service for the five police officers killed in Dallas, including referring to himself in the third-person: "the president."

For Barack Obama it's not about Dallas Police Officers, gun violence, Black Lives Matter...none of these issues. For Barack Obama it's all about...Barack Obama, the me, me, me POTUS.

The Daily Caller comments on Obama's "I" Dallas memorial speech.
Obama referred to himself twice before finishing his opening salutations and before mentioning the slain officers or their families. After noting the presence of President Bush, members of Congress and Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings, Obama appeared to go off-script.

Comment: Obama's 'performance' is a perfect example of America's culture of narcissism.

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German 'moderate rebel' who posed with decapitated bodies in Syria jailed for 2 years


RT
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:47 UTC
Aria Ladjevardi
A German of Iranian origin who traveled to Syria to join a jihadist group was sentenced to two years in prison for appearing in a set of images with severed heads of Syrian army servicemen. The case marks the first Syria-related war crime verdict in Germany.

A regional court in Frankfurt has found Aria Ladjevardi, a 21-year-old German citizen, guilty of war crimes for treating two Syrian army soldiers "in a degrading and humiliating manner" in violation of international humanitarian law.

The unidentified militant group, to which Ladjevardi is said to have belonged, raided a Syrian army checkpoint between March 8 and April 16, 2014, in the town of Binnish located in the Idlib province. The militants captured and later executed two servicemen. In course of the slaughter they beheaded the victims and spiked their heads on metal rods put on public display, the court has stated in a statement Tuesday.

Comment: We wonder why the group he was part of hasn't been named. Well, no actually, we don't. By process of elimination, it wasn't Daesh (they haven't held territory in Idlib). It was possibly Nusra, who have retained territory on the border with Turkey and south of Idlib city. But chances are it was a 'moderate rebel' group allied with Nusra. If they were to name the group, it would be bad PR. Can't have moderate rebels exposed as head-chopping crazies like their Nusra and Daesh brothers!

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Thousands of S. Koreans protest installation of THAAD US missile defense system as Seoul announces location


RT
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:39 UTC
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© Yonap/Agence France Presse
Thousands of South Korean residents hold up red banners reading "We absolutely oppose THAAD deployment", during a rally againt the planned deployment of the US-built Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, THAAD, in Seongju town, 217 km southeast of Seoul, on July 13, 2016.
South Korea's military has announced the location of its THAAD anti-missile defense system, intended to deter threats from North Korea. The plan, which greatly angered regional powers, has led thousands of Koreans on to the streets in protest.

Seoul and Washington say the system is intended to both counter threats in the region and defend US troops stationed there. It forms the core element of the America's multilayered defense program. But the local residents fear it will lead to deteriorating health and will negatively impact the agricultural economy. The system's high-powered radar has been linked to infertility and cancer, according to local rumors, which the government dismissed as "baseless."

Some 3,000 people first took to the streets on Saturday, following the previous day's announcement of the US-backed Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense System, or THAAD. This was in Chilgok County - thought to have been the likeliest of the locations. The protests have since spread.

But on Wednesday the government revealed the location to be the county of Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province, about 135 miles (217km) southeast of Seoul.

"South Korea and the US' joint working group have proposed the Seongju area, North Gyeongsang Province, as the optimal place for the deployment ... and the countries' defense ministers have approved it," the Ministry of National Defense's Deputy Minister for Policy Yoo Jeh-seung announced on Wednesday, Yonhap news agency reports.

This led to no less than 5,000 farmers gathering in protest, according to Yonhap. Opposition continues to be so fierce that some officials have gone on hunger strikes. This was followed by the county's Governor Kim Hang-gon writing a letter to Seoul in his own blood, as the attendees observed.

Comment: The US has been stationing missiles all over Eastern Europe and claiming they are to "defend against the Iranian threat", when the whole world knows (or should know) that the target is Russia. Now the US is using the same script in Eastern Asia, stationing missiles in S. Korea to "defend against the N. Korean threat". One guess who the real target is.

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95% of Crimea has no regrets reuniting with Russia - poll


RT
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:58 UTC
Crimea festivities
© Maks Vetrov/Sputnik
Participants of the festive events dedicated to the second anniversary of Crimea reuniting with Russia, in Simferopol.
Ninety-five percent of the people living in Crimea would vote in favor of the republic's accession into the Russian Federation if a referendum on the subject was held again today.

On Tuesday, Russia's state owned public opinion research agency, VTSIOM, released the results of a poll conducted among Crimean residents between late June and early July of this year which found that 95 percent of Crimeans and 94 percent of the people living in Sevastopol, which is a separate subject of the Russian Federation, said they would vote to reunite with Russia if a referendum on the issue took place in the near future.

Only two percent of those polled said they would not support the reunification. Three percent of Crimeans and four percent of Sevastopol residents found the question too complicated to answer.

In the same poll, Crimeans were asked if they were satisfied with the general situation in their region. Seventy-six percent answered "yes," of which 34 percent were "very definite" about it. Ninety-seven percent of Crimeans and 98 percent of those living in Sevastopol said they approve of how Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing his job.

The Crimean Republic reunited with the Russian Federation two years ago after over 96 percent of its residents, the majority of whom are ethnic Russians, approved the move in an urgently called referendum. The decision was prompted by the ouster of the democratically elected president of Ukraine in a violent coup in Kiev and the installation of a nationalist-backed government that almost immediately declared war on the pro-Russian regions in the country's southeast, which refused to recognize the newly imposed regime.
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'Zombies' stagger through Brooklyn as K2 overdoses send 33 people to hospital

Shari Logan, Kenneth Garger, Larry Celona and Chris Perez
New York Post
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:58 UTC
K2 bags
© Dennis A. Clark
Bags of K2 are seen on the ground where the overdoses happened in Brooklyn.
Dozens of half-dead people blindly staggered through the streets of a Brooklyn neighborhood known as "Zombieland" Tuesday morning, propping themselves up against fire hydrants and vomiting foam down their shirts.

But the apocalyptic scene wasn't for a movie. The victims had apparently smoked a bad batch of the "synthetic marijuana" drug known as K2 — and 33 people had to be hospitalized.

"It looked like a scene out of 'The Walking Dead,' " said Brian Arthur, a lifelong Brooklyn resident who posted footage of the disheartening scene on Facebook.
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IT crash causes chaos and delays at Heathrow

Hugh Morris
The Telegraph
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:29 UTC
heathrow terminal
© Fergus Bell/Twitter
Passengers queuing at Terminal 5 this morning.
British Airways passengers flying from Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 are facing huge lines and lengthy delays after a glitch in a new IT system caused chaos at check-in.

It is the second time in as many weeks that travellers have taken to social media to post pictures of long queues in the departure hall, as hundreds of people have had to contend with "total chaos" at the start of their holidays.

"Total chaos at Heathrow Terminal 5 where 'technical difficulties' have halted BA check in," wrote Theo Delaney on Twitter, sharing a photo of a snaking line.

Comment: Hmm, sources say there will be a 'summer of holiday chaos' at airports in the US too.

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Dallas questions: Was Johnson really acting alone? Has BLM been infiltrated?

Dave Emory
SpitfireList
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:16 UTC
dallas police
© Ron Jenkins / AFP
A Dallas police officer drives near the scene where eleven Dallas police officers were shot and five have now died on July 7, 2016 in Dallas, Texas.
Filtering the news accounts of the tragedy in Dallas, we have more questions than answers. For some time, we have been afraid that long-standing, lethal police brutality toward African-Americans and the Black Lives Matter could provide a combustible mix in this troubled, wounded nation.

Although Micah Johnson was apparently moving up and down stairs to effect multiple sniper posts, the numerous accounts of other gunmen generating "triangulated fire" do not strike us as being satisfactorily dismissed by Johnson's vertical mobility.

Subsequent accounts of other snipers turning out to be armed protesters at what was described as a "peaceful" protest strike us as inadequate as well.

With Louis Farrakhan having called for blood, with jihadists being recruited for combat as proxy warriors in the Caucasus and Syria, among other places, with long-standing interface between Farrakhan and white supremacist elements, with white supremacists having enthusiastically embraced Donald Trump, we are of the opinion that other angles should be explored here.

Comment: See Joe Quinn and Beau Christensen's latest SOTT Focus: Dallas police shootings: Social Engineering and the American Police State

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Cop mistakes a pointing finger for a gun and shoots man in cold blood

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:44 UTC
Andrew Henson
© News9
Graphic body camera video was just released showing a Wagoner police officer kill an unarmed man — for pointing his finger.

The shooting occurred after 25-year-old Andrew Henson led police on a high-speed chase for approximately 20 minutes. The chase began after a routine traffic stop.

Police say Henson's car rolled after he clipped a patrol car. When Officer Robert Reynolds approached Henson, he was hiding behind the car.

According to the body cam footage, Officer Reynolds approached Henson with his gun drawn. As Henson emerged from behind the vehicle, he pointed at Reynolds. "You're going to have to kill me," Henson said.
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Wasteful and out of touch with reality: Half of all US food produce is thrown away because of unrealistic cosmetic standards

Suzanne Goldenberg
The Guardian
Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:30 UTC
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© Dan Tuffs/for the Guardian
Discarded food is the biggest single component of US landfill and incinerators, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a "cult of perfection", deepening hunger and poverty, and inflicting a heavy toll on the environment.

Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill, because of unrealistic and unyielding cosmetic standards, according to official data and interviews with dozens of farmers, packers, truckers, researchers, campaigners and government officials.

From the fields and orchards of California to the population centres of the east coast, farmers and others on the food distribution chain say high-value and nutritious food is being sacrificed to retailers' demand for unattainable perfection.

"It's all about blemish-free produce," says Jay Johnson, who ships fresh fruit and vegetables from North Carolina and central Florida. "What happens in our business today is that it is either perfect, or it gets rejected. It is perfect to them, or they turn it down. And then you are stuck."

Food waste is often described as a "farm-to-fork" problem. Produce is lost in fields, warehouses, packaging, distribution, supermarkets, restaurants and fridges.

By one government tally, about 60m tonnes of produce worth about $160bn (£119bn), is wasted by retailers and consumers every year - one third of all foodstuffs.
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