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Massacre at Walmart in El Paso, Texas: Eyewitnesses Report Multiple Shooters - 'Lone Gunman' Narrative Inconsistencies


Sott.net
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:58 UTC
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It looks like another organized mass shooting is taking place in the USA, this time in El Paso on the US-Mexico border - a location obviously ripe for provocation given Trump's border wall mandate and Democrats' 'holy grail' of gun control.

Details are still coming in, but we fully expect the initial reports of multiple gunmen to be whittled down in the official narrative to another 'lone gunman'...

No word yet on the number of dead, but dozens have been injured.

Here's RT:
At least 18 people have been shot at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, local media reports. Police are searching for possibly multiple shooters, while footage of victims and shocking accounts of witnesses have emerged.

One suspect has been placed in custody, El Paso police told local TV, adding that the search of the crime scene and its surroundings continues. Police confirmed "multiple" people have been killed but have so far refused to reveal the exact number or the victims' identities.

Several extremely graphic videos, purportedly taken at the scene, have emerged online. One shows at least three bodies lying outside the Walmart and in its parking lot. In another one, people are seen fleeing the store past a person lying on the floor in a large blood puddle.

Meanwhile a short clip of a man hiding under furniture while multiple shots are heard in the background has been making the rounds in the media.
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French farmers dump manure outside politician's office protesting EU's trade deal with Canada

Barry Cassidy
Farmers Journal
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:00 UTC
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© Monique Iborra Twitter
Manure dumped outside the offices of French MP Monique Iborra
French farmers protesting against the signing of a trade deal with Canada have dumped manure outside the offices of a member of the French National Assembly.

France's parliament recently approved the CETA trade deal between the EU and Canada.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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Swedish municipality faces bankruptcy after taking too many migrants, asks for aid from national government

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:32 UTC
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Migrants arrive at Lulea airport, Kallax in northern Sweden
The Swedish municipality of Bengtsfors has petitioned the national government for aid due to massive costs incurred taking in more migrants than the municipality could afford.

Local Moderate Party politician Stig Bertilsson said the multi-page letter was clear in identifying the cause of the budget deficit as being related to the large number of "new Swedes" taken in and requested aid to cover the costs, SVT reports.

"Costs in municipalities that have received new arrivals have continued to be substantial even when government revenues have stopped. This creates a large negative hole in the municipal cash register," Bertilsson said.

When asked about tax revenues from new migrants that could bridge the deficit gap, Bertilsson said that in the long run he hoped there would be a rise in revenues but so far there has not been one, adding that the Swedish labour market "has a long way to go".

Unemployment figures for migrants in Sweden are in fact much higher than those for native Swedes, with a report last summer showing a 19.9 per cent unemployment rate for migrants compared to just 3.6 per cent for natives.


Comment: One of the reasons the Swedish tax system works as well as it does is that Swedes work hard, thus ensuring the supply of funds that can go toward social programs via taxes. One of the disadvantages is that those very programs act as an incentive for migrants who don't share the same cultural work ethic to abuse the system for free stuff. Without integration or proper migration control, the system is simply unsustainable.

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German authorities infuriated as Munich Islamic Centre promotes beating of 'unruly' women

Tim Korso
Sputnik
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 19:26 UTC
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Germany faced a major influx of migrants from the Middle East in 2015, which was subsequently followed by a rise in crime across the country and protests by Germans who have demanded changes to migration policies.

The Munich Islamic Centre (IZM) has faced a wave of criticism after controversial content on its website, namely recommendations to husbands on how to handle conflicts within their families, were highlighted by Bayerischer Rundfunk 24. A subsection on the website, titled Wife and Family, suggested, citing the Qur'an, that a husband can beat his "unruly" spouse, albeit only as a last resort after admonishing her and rejecting her in the bedroom.

According to Bayerischer Rundfunk 24, these recommendations have been instructing visitors to the website for the last 15 years. The outlet indicated that the German Muslim Community (DMG) had promised on behalf of the IZM to make amendments to certain sections of the centre's website back in March 2019, but ultimately failed to do so. The DMG explained the delay as being due to a variety factors, such as illness of those responsible for the site's content, but vowed to fix everything within two weeks.

The revelation by the German media outlet caused outrage among local politicians. A member of the city council and of the committee on integration, Cumali Naz from the Social Democratic Party (SPD), strongly condemned the recommendations provided by IZM.
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Someone changed El Paso shooter's MyLife page from Democrat to Republican after his arrest

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:07 UTC
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The Walmart-Cielo Vista Mall shooter in El Paso, Texas, was identified this afternoon as Patrick Crusius from Allen, Texas outside of Dallas.

Washington Examiner reporter Anna Giaritelli posted the name and a photos of the alleged shooter, sourced to law enforcement, "A law enforcement official in El Paso told me the Walmart shooter is in custody. Patrick Crusius of Dallas. Just turned 21 years old this week."


Patrick Crusius has a profile on MyLife.com.

MyLife is an American information brokerage founded in 2002 as Reunion.com. MyLife gathers personal information through public records and other sources to automatically generate a "MyLife Public Page" for each person, described by MyLife as a "complete Wikipedia-like biography on every American."

At 2:46 PM today MyLife had this profile for the deranged killer Patrick Crusius.

Comment: And the political polarization continues, seemingly confirming all the Left's worst fears about white supremacy. Moderates on both sides should do themselves a favor, calm down, and read Haidt and Lukianoff's book, Coddling of the American Mind. If they don't learn some lessons there or elsewhere, things will only get worse, which is precisely what some want to happen.

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At odds with conservative pessimism regarding free speech on campus

Greg Lukianoff
National Review
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 02:19 UTC
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The problem may seem worse than ever, but progress has been made — and there's a real shot to make more.

At a recent conference, I talked to a young college graduate who dabbles in journalism and he said, rather offhandedly, "There's always good attention paid to stories about free speech on campus." This produced a hearty laugh from me, because the overwhelming interest in campus-speech issues is a recent development.

Indeed, over my first ten years at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (2001-11), we begged people to pay attention to the fact that it was shockingly easy to get in trouble for what you said on campus. It is real progress that now when I bring up free speech on campus, very few people ever say, "I didn't realize it was an issue." Yet even though the issue is more prominent in public conversation than it's ever been since the emergence of "political correctness" in the late '80s and early '90s, whenever I talk to conservatives, there is often a deep sense of pessimism about what can be done about campuses.
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Germany reports migrant deportations often result in attacks and injuries to federal officers


RT
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 14:29 UTC
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© Reuters / Tobias Schwarz
Last year, 284 officers were attacked while carrying out deportations, and 71 of them were injured.
Foreigners slated for deportation in Germany punch and kick police officers, engage in "rehearsed" violence, and even bite off their own tongues just to avoid being sent home, a new report reveals.

Last year, 284 officers were attacked while carrying out deportations, and 71 of them were injured, German paper Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing the Federal Police.

The assaults happened during incidents related to deportation flights, for which the Federal Police is responsible. In 2017, some 274 officers were attacked while trying to deport foreigners.

The police did not specify the severity of the officers' injuries, and the report did not provide a detailed breakdown of the circumstances in which they were inflicted. In one recent case, an officer in Munich fell and broke his kneecap after a 26-year-old migrant from Sierra Leone slated for deportation had "panicked" on airstairs.

In other cases, the deportees acted more violently. Federal police union chief, Ernst Walter, who accompanied people on many deportation flights, told the paper that officers have sustained "kicks, punches and headbutts" during such operations.
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Modern slavery: The global business supply chain employs 40M people working in slave-like conditions

Annalisa Merelli
Quartz
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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Many countries that supply consumer goods have high percentages of people working in conditions of slavery, enduring long shifts and exhausting conditions without the choice to leave. The fashion industry is notoriously marred by the use of forced labor, as is the tech sector.
Slavery has been illegal worldwide for just about four decades, since Mauritania finally abolished it in 1981.

But slavery didn't end there. According to the latest report by the Walk Free Initiative, presented today (July 17) at the UN Headquarters in New York, there were 40.3 million people living in conditions of slavery in 2018, most of them women.

There isn't an official legal definition of modern slavery, but the UN describes it as the condition of people whose work "is performed involuntarily and under the menace of any penalty." Modern slaves can be coerced to work through explicit measures like violence, but also through subtler means like financial pressure, or by limiting someone's movement by retaining their identification.

While it's easy to believe that slavery is limited to poor or underdeveloped countries, or countries with a questionable human rights record, it is actually happening everywhere. Recently, for example, there was two cases where diplomats kept staff in their US residencies who were working in conditions of slavery.

The UN and its member states committed to eliminating slavery by 2030, along with human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor. The commitments are part of the UN's sustainable development goals — a set of ideals the world's governments pledged to tackle in 2015.

Comment: Interesting that foaming at the mouth liberals who busy themselves tweeting about racism and multiple 'phobias' don't choose to focus on this real problem affecting millions around the world.

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'Passport for migration': DNA tests reveal migrant trafficked toddler to Texas border by falsely claiming to be his father


Daily Mail
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 22:27 UTC
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Border Patrol agent holds a toddler brought into the United States illegally by a Central American migrant.
Customs and Border Protection posted an image on its social media page on Wednesday showing a Central American toddler whom it says was brought into the country by a migrant who falsely claimed to be his father.

The picture shows a Border Patrol agent holding the infant boy, whose right hand is gripping a small package of crackers.

CBP says the picture was taken at a migrant processing facility in Donna, Texas.

'On July 17, McAllen USBP agents encountered a group of 12 people comprised of family units and unaccompanied children who turned themselves in,' CBP wrote in its Instagram post.

'Record checks revealed an individual traveling with his alleged son had 2 previous immigration arrests in El Paso Sector just in the past month.

Given the recent apprehensions and the age of the child, agents requested the assistance of HSI to administer a rapid DNA test.

'The test revealed there is no parent-child relationship. The man admitted he was not the child's father, but knew the mother and had permission to take the child.
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9 killed as gunman opens fire in Dayton bar district, hours after Texas massacre -UPDATE: 10 dead


RT
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 11:56 UTC
Police officers in Dayton, Ohio
© Matthew Hatcher / Getty Images / AFP
Police officers in Dayton, Ohio.
Nine people have been killed in a mass shooting in downtown Dayton, Ohio while 26 others were injured. The gunman was taken out by officers responding to the incident.

The shooting happened in the area of East 5th Street in the Oregon District of Dayton in the early hours of Sunday local time, and just hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.

Dayton police said the shooter used some kind of a long gun in the attack and most likely acted alone. They said they were working on identifying the gunman and establishing the motives behind his rampage.

Miami Valley Hospital spokesperson Terrea Little confirmed that they had received 16 victims from the shooting, but wouldn't provide further details. The police initially reported that there were 16 injured survivors, but Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley later said 26 people were hurt in the gun violence.

Comment: UPDATE from RT: Dayton shooter used Kalashnikov-type rifle, 10 dead - mayor
The Dayton, Ohio mass shooting suspect used a Kalashnikov-type rifle to kill 9 people before being killed by police, the city mayor said. Local hospitals treated 27 people in the aftermath, and some remain in critical condition.

Mayor Nan Whaley and other Dayton officials gave an update on the night shooting in the city's historic center. The Kalashnikov-wielding attacker was wearing body armor and had several high-capacity magazines for his rifle, the mayor said. He was shot dead by police officers, who arrived at the scene less than a minute after the massacre began.

Of the 27 people who were brought to hospitals or walked in with injuries in the aftermath of the shooting, 15 have been discharged. Five patients are in critical or serious conditions, with multiple surgeries scheduled to treat them.

Whaley said the Oregon district, where the shooting took place, will be open later in the day.
See also: Murderous rampage unfolds at Walmart in El Paso, Texas: Eyewitnesses report multiple gunmen - UPDATE: 20 dead

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